Posted on 12/01/2004 3:48:43 PM PST by pete anderson
This is why I think this should be very very very limited in purpose and scope. Homosexual materials do not need to be redily accessible in elementary school or used in elementary school.
In "Catcher" the main character hires a prostitute and his gay teacher comes on to him.
Gatsby has at least two affairs in the plot and Nick hints at being gay.
"Letter" is Obvious.
Sodomy includes both oral and anal intercourse under Alabama law, which is what the book burning would be based on.
"My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him" (Song of Solomon 5:4).Hmmmm... I wonder what that means. Obviously, we should be like Scalia and interpret the song literally, and the "hole of the door" is a hole in the door. It is not an anus. It would be perverse to impart sexual themes to the Song of Solomon. </sarcasm>
none of those books are in elementary school.
Those Cats were way ahead of their time with a Gay Divorce 70 years before Gay Marriage.
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This is a very scary proposition. What's next? There are scenes of incest in the Bible. Would this be banned as well?
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Doesn't Noah get drunk and try to have sex with his sons? Isn't that incest and homosexuality. Goodness gracious, I guess the bible needs to be banned from church. LOL
I let my 12 year old daugher read the Scarlet Letter, I hope none of the Nanny State Advocates have me tossed in prison.
Correct.....
Well, we'll just have to see won't we.....
How in God's name does reading books promoting homosexual lifestyles benefit a CHILD!? My children are voracious readers, but they read classics, such as Tom Sawyer, Moby Dick, a Tale of Two Cities, etc. I would not allow them to read such trash. There IS a difference.
Re: the others - IMO you're stretching it. Yes, Gatsby has affairs, but we're not talking about extramarital sex here.
Might as well ban Flannery O'Connor, too - one of the greatest Southern novelists and a devout Catholic. She included at least one gay character in her story (name escapes me) about the boy raised by his crazy fire-breathing Pentecostal uncle in the backwoods.
We were talking about public libraries here. I know Scarlet Letter was in my elementary school library, because I read it in 6th grade. But schools have gotten dumbed down since then, right?
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I'll say it, it's wrong.
Are you saying it's right?
You only read my first post. Try again.
No subsequent posts by you answer the question you yourself asked...is this right or wrong?
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Not for nothing but Melville's works have been the subject of serious academic questions about queer undertones, especially Billy Budd but including Moby Dick.
INteresting...I had never heard that, I know I never suspected.....
Actually, it doesn't say that they tried to commit a homosexual act on Noah.....I believe the exact words are "uncover his nakedness" KJV.......
Do you know what the word "extremist" means?
And I'm talking about both sides. The author of the ban, and the homo-facsists who want to make sure that every child in America has to read and absorb the vital lessons offered in such important tomes as "My two Mommies".
There is a difference between classic literature and indoctrinational tripe.
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