How does a prohibition on public funding get twisted into a "ban"?
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If only buggery were a religion...
If only buggery were a religion...
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-04-03-cheney-book_x.htm
Publisher cancels reissue of racy novel by Lynne Cheney
NEW YORK (AP) — A publisher has canceled plans to reissue a racy novel by Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, after she said the book did not represent her "best work."
Lynne Cheney has been active in publishing over the past couple of years.
By J. Scott Applewhite, AP
New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), was going to reprint Sisters, a historical romance published in 1981 that includes brothels, attempted rapes and a lesbian love affair.
"We felt interest was growing because it was an election year and we decided it could be a timely book," Liz Perl, executive director of publicity at New American Library, told The Associated Press on Friday.
But according to Cheney's attorney, Robert Barnett, she did not even know about the reissue until receiving calls last week from the media. Barnett then contacted the publisher, which agreed this week to pull the novel.
"I told them that she did not think the book was her best work," said Barnett, who represents numerous political leaders, including former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"If there is a serious demand for this 25-year-old book, I am confident that America's used bookstores will be able to satisfy it," Barnett said.
Perl and Barnett said no legal action was threatened. Although New American Library had the rights to reissue the novel, Perl said, there was no desire "to put out a book that the author was not happy with."
Liberals have often mocked Sisters, noting that Cheney is a longtime conservative and that President Bush supports a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
Her novel was the subject of a recent satirical performance at the New York Theatre Workshop, with actors reading such passages as, "Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl."
Sisters has long been out of print and is not mentioned in Cheney's biography on the White House Web site. In 2001, she told a New York Times reporter that she couldn't even remember the plot.
Cheney has been active in publishing over the past couple of years, releasing the best-selling children's book America: A Patriotic Primer, and sponsoring a literary prize, the James Madison Book Award, for the best history written for young people. She was a featured speaker in February at the Association of American Publishers' annual meeting.
How does a prohibition on public funding get twisted into a "ban"?
Good idea wrong execution.
This lawmaker should look to put forth a law like that in texas which requires a scientific explanation how homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle. This can be limited to the public schools.
This lawmaker would have excellent support to put this in the pre-highschool grades as a first step.
There would be very little opposition by mothers and fathers when it comes to their prepubesent children and this recruiting material.
I'm suprised the ACLU hasn't sued the State for funding and promoting this queer religious death cult.
Doesn't this idiot know you are supposed to burn books, not ban them?
/sarcasm
As sick as I am of the Gaystapo promoting their garbage, this ban is as stupid and wrong as the politically correct attmpts at censorship.
I wonder, if the gay protagonist got killed at the end would he allow it.....?
Screw him. This is nothing but censorship.
I have no use for the gay agenda, but I have a bigger problem with a FREEDOM GRABBING agenda. What's next? Ban books with guns in them? For the children...of course.
Bill like this also create sympathy for the gay agenda. They made their big mistake by overstepping their bounds on marriage. This is the other way.
This part's fine -- the rest is fascist garbage.
This is a very scary proposition. What's next? There are scenes of incest in the Bible. Would this be banned as well?
Good!
Good!
has this guy read the u.s. constitution?
It would not however, prohibit books that paint homosexuals in a negative light.
Constitutional issue in the making.
What's going to be the end result of idiotic moves like these?
Strict judicial scrutiny by the Federal courts, and class protection for homosexuals.