Posted on 11/17/2006 3:29:42 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
SHILOH, Ill. - A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is getting a chilly reception among some parents who worry about the book's availability to children - and the reluctance of school administrators to restrict access to it.
The concerns are the latest involving "And Tango Makes Three," the illustrated children's book based on a true story of two male penguins in New York City's Central Park Zoo that adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own.
Complaining about the book's homosexual undertones, some parents of Shiloh Elementary School students believe the book - available to be checked out of the school's library in this 11,000-resident town 20 miles east of St. Louis - tackles topics their children aren't ready to handle.
Their request: Move the book to the library's regular shelves and restrict it to a section for mature issues, perhaps even requiring parental permission before a child can check it out.
For now, "And Tango Makes Three" will stay put, said school district Superintendent Jennifer Filyaw, though a panel she appointed suggested the book be moved and require parental permission to be checked out. The district's attorney said moving it might be construed as censorship.
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I copied this article and sent it to my mailing list...here is something else everyone should read..now this is sick also..I sent this one to my mailing list too..
*** UPDATE
Wal-Mart Drops Gay Sex How-To Manual for Teens after LifeSiteNews.com Expose
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06111703.html
By Gudrun Schultz
BENTONVILLE, AR, November 15, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A graphic sex-ed manual promoting lesbianism to teenage girls is now offered for sale by Wal-Mart in the United States. Called "irresponsible and obscene" and by the Institute for Canadian Values, the material contains explicit directions for engaging in oral/anal sexual acts. The book encourages same-sex experimentation, telling girls that only 10 percent of the population is actually heterosexual, while 80 percent is "mixed" or bi-sexual.
Produced by St. Stephens' Community House in Toronto, the book titled "The Little Black Book for Girlz: A Book on Healthy Sexuality" caused a storm of controversy earlier this fall when parents and pro-family groups first became aware of the books' content after it was published in September.
The manual was further condemned for using obscene and derogatory language. Examples include a section entitled "My First Time F***ing a Girl" and the statement "If you need someone to represent God The Holiness, then for me, it's a fat black dyke."
The manual contains misleading and dangerous information on "safe" sex devises, assuring teenagers that condom use is 100 percent effective in preventing the transmission of disease. That statement contradicts the World Health Organization's recent admission that condom use fails to protect against HIV/AIDS transmission up to 20 percent of the time, crucial information missing from the manual.
Another section on "safe" lesbian sex acts, entitled "How to use a dental dam," encourages girls to engage in such dangerous behaviour as sewing latex squares used in dentistry into the crotch of their underwear "for added fun."
Wal-Mart says the book, sold for $8.50, is "a great mix of real-life examples and life-saving info."
Advertising the manual as "not just a book about sex, but a look at girl culture by teenagers," the book is praised as "No stuffy school textbook," with "No nosy adults" involved.
"It's all stuff that youth need to know
The Little Black Book for Girlz is an important, take--anywhere empowerment guide. Girls shouldn't leave their teen years without it."
Wal-Mart recently joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, which celebrated the involvement of the corporation as "part of the company's ongoing commitment to advancing diversity among all of its associate, supplier and customer bases."
The company contributed $60,000 in 2006 to the activist group Out & Equal, an organization dedicated to promoting the homosexual lifestyle, including same-sex marriage, in the workplace. Wal-Mart ran a full-page ad in the Out & Equal 2006 Workplace Summit Program Guide stating the company's commitment to supporting the goals of the Out & Equal Summit.
In 2005, Human Rights Campaign, the largest homosexual activist lobby organization in the U.S., applauded Wal-Mart for adopting a new definition of family that included same-sex partners, where recognized under state law.
(News tip from http://socon-or-bust.blogspot.com/ )
To express concerns:
web-based email: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?dest=9999999997&am...
phone: 1-800-WALMART (1-800-925-6278)
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Yes they do. The reason the book has caused an uproar, is the way it is present "they must be in love" in one passage in the book, implying they are homosexual, and not acting on normal instinct which is males raising the young.<<
Somebody above also suggested there were problems with the teaching guide too.
LOL I saw that, but hadn't seen the teaching guide before then. Now that I have, it's more of a lie than it was before!
>>Penguins really can be gay
Central Park Zoo's gay penguins ignite debate<<
For some reason I found it funny they are "chin strap" penguins.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1740489/posts?page=1
I have to send this on now because it is such good news..
Yup, that's why I store my Drano on the coffee table...if I put it out of reach, they might try to drink it.
Paging Dr. Freud.
not too sure I get your point, there, Gidget.
You mean Lola Granola was just a front? Nope, I won't believe it. He's just in touch with his "feminine side". :)
And speaking of penguins, I've never been a big fan of Java, either...
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