Family.org has a
Page with a number of resources for the
pro-filtering camp. Includes \”\’HEIDI BORTON’S
STORY\”, the librarian turned filtering activist, and a News Release that goes after the ALA for
Banned Books Week.
\”Banned Books Week is a
fraud,\” said Dick Carpenter, Education Policy Analyst for
Focus on the Family. \”Nothing is banned. There are no
book burnings.
Family.org has a
Page with a number of resources for the
pro-filtering camp. Includes \”\’HEIDI BORTON’S
STORY\”, the librarian turned filtering activist, and a News Release that goes after the ALA for
Banned Books Week.
\”Banned Books Week is a
fraud,\” said Dick Carpenter, Education Policy Analyst for
Focus on the Family. \”Nothing is banned. There are no
book burnings. More from that press release
\”The ALA repeatedly circulates the myth that good
reading material is being barred from bookstores and
libraries all across the country. The reality is that
Banned Books Week is nothing more than the ALA\’s
attempt to intimidate and silence any parent, teacher or
librarian who questions the appropriateness of sexually
explicit or violent material for school children,\” said
Carpenter.
\”One Huntsville, Alabama mother dared to question the
classroom use of a book centered around a student
shooting and killing a high school teacher. The book
was aimed at fourth and fifth graders as part of their
elementary school reading program. According to the
ALA, this mother\’s concern is a sinister incident of
\’censorship\’ and that piece of literature is now labeled a
\’banned book,\’\” said Carpenter. \”What they consider
censorship, we often call common sense.
\”The facts speak for themselves. This year, out of more
than 120,000 library facilities, the ALA came up with
only 472 examples of \’banned books.\’ Of those
incidents, the majority of books in question were
challenged for age-appropriate concerns. This equates
to one \’banned book\’ for every 300 libraries. This is not
the book-burning crisis that the ALA would have us
believe,\” said Carpenter.
\”Meanwhile, they turn a blind eye to the increasing
problem of Internet pornography,\” said Steve Watters,
Internet Analyst for Focus on the Family. \”David Burt,
former librarian and author of the Family Research
Council\’s Dangerous Access: Uncovering Internet
Pornography in America\’s Libraries, attempted to obtain
reports on Internet porn abuse from public libraries. Of
the 452 libraries who shared their Internet abuse
reports, he documented 2,062 incidents of Internet
porn-related problems in recent years,\” said Watters.
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