Posted on 03/16/2006 5:17:36 PM PST by wagglebee
(AgapePress) - A proposed bill in the Oklahoma Legislature would require public libraries that receive state funds to remove materials containing sexually explicit content or homosexual themes from general reading areas.
The proposed law easily passed a State House panel last week and now heads to the full House for a vote. The bill would withhold state funds from public libraries that do not put objectionable material in a special place. Steve Crampton, chief counsel with the American Family Association's Center for Law & Policy, says the bill is reasonable.
"All it does is remove [the material] from, basically, an accidental kind of discovery by children that oftentimes are pre-kindergarten in age," says Crampton. "There's just no excuse for allowing kids to access this kind of material in a public library paid for by taxpayer money."
And contrary to what liberal groups might try to portray, says the constitutional legal expert, the bill is not a form of censorship. "The liberal ACLU types are looking at it with that in mind," he suggests, "but I think they may not rush into court."
He points out that the legislation does not call for anything to be removed from the libraries. "Though the easy pot-shot made at it is that it constitutes 'censorship,' the reality is that you're not removing a single book," Crampton says. "All you're doing is putting them into a restricted access section. So I don't know that they would be successful in the event they did raise the challenge."
The bill's sponsor, Representative Sally Kern of Oklahoma City, says she is not trying to censor materials. She explains that she just wants to shield children from language and behaviors they are not mature enough to understand.
The problem is that the leftist want children to be exposed to this garbage.
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The left will be outraged if children are not exposed to this crap!
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>The problem is the leftist want children to be exposed to this garbage<
You got that right. I was on a small committee to defeat a library ballot for a bond issue because of the unfiltered computers and pornography. Our argument in the voter's pamphlet did the job, and it lost bigtime. Since then the board of directors has voted to filter ALL their computers. We tax payers do not want lecherous sex offenders sharing the air with little children at story time in our town. So don't give up, fight on!
I have not actually seen any first-graders reading Sartre or Nabokov. Perhaps they're not that interested?
OK what does the ACLU have to object?
All this does is put all homosexual material and adult sex material in a different out of child reach section.
This is done in video stores without a problem...
What about gay or subversive authors? Will kids not be able to read The Importance of Being Ernest? How about the poetry of John Donne? Lord Byron?
What about that children's classic:
Vladimir and Estragon Have Two Mommies But Will Still Die Alone, Like Everyone Else...Even You!
C'est bonne ecriture pour les enfants deconstructionistes, n'est pas?
No groups of giggling adolescents around the 611's that way, but nonetheless there were plenty of pervs and weirdos that were regulars at the library. There was one guy that we always hid from whenever we saw him because he use to follow us around as we shelved books. Our instincts were correct-- one day he exposed himself to a little girl. Never a dull moment at a library...
I really no longer see the need for any taxpayer funded libraries. Colleges have libraries for scholarly research, plus there's the internet and a Barnes & Noble or Borders every few miles, I just think libraries have become an unnecessary redundancy.
Lord Byron?
"For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter,
Which flies on wings of light-heel'd Mercuries,
Who do such things because they know no better;
And then, God knows what mischief may arise,
When love links two young people in one fetter,
Vile assignations, and adulterous beds,
Elopements, broken vows, and hearts, and heads....
At keast tiy can't say he didn't warn us what migt happen!
I was in a library a few years ago looking for some specific non-fiction books and while wandering down one aisle I noticed a book put in wrong - horizontally atop other books. I figured I'd stick it in the righ way and looked at it to see where it was supposed to go. It was the worst pornography I could imagine - I read about two short paragraphs and I felt like vomiting. I wondered who had been reading it - likely a kid. I felt like dumping it into the trash, I should have.
Leftists and liberaltarians want this degrading **** to infect people. You gotta wonder why.
I think the best solution to libraries is private libraries. Could be small and local. Say churches, or any organization that wanted to have one. I bet a lot of people would donate books or money to buy books, and anyone who wanted to borrow would have to become a member and pay a fee, say yearly, or one time. Maybe a small fee every time books are borrowed.
Separate libraries and state, I'm all for it.
Yep...
SO, we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath, 5
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.
Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon, 10
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
There are private libraries.
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