Alabama Bill Targets ‘Gay’ Books

CBS News has picked up on Republican Alabama lawmaker Gerald Allen’s attempt to ban public school libraries from buying new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters. He don’t look at it as censorship, he’s just “protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children.”

Allen originally wanted to ban even some Shakespeare. After criticism, he narrowed his bill to exempt the classics, although he still can’t define what a classic is. Also exempted now Alabama’s public and college libraries.

April 27, 2005 by Uncategorized 3

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  1. kylere says:
    April 27, 2005 at 5:17 pm

    I was once…
    I was once a Republican but people like this are exactly why I vote libertarian now. I cannot stomach the self-righteous arrogance of either major party, between the “for the children” and “for our God” of the Republicans and the “for the children” and “for our bleeding hearts” of the Dems I have been sickened by the two party system.

    Anyone proposing such ignorant legislation should be recalled and never voted for again. The damnable thing is that I question the concept of giving gay source material to children, but I still think this blanket concept is ignorant. Then add in that merely being gay is supposed to make any book your write questionable?

    The only way I will block a ban of gay material is if we are talking about tripe like Ann Rice’s gay vampires/demons and even then I would only back that because the books IMHO suck.

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  2. VALIS says:
    April 28, 2005 at 5:08 am

    Maybe he should ban the internet, too…
    You need computers to access it, and Alan Turing was gay.

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  3. Frogtoes says:
    May 5, 2005 at 10:51 pm

    OH please
    For the minds of our children? Oh please… We should allow research for the minds of our children. Our world has slowly lost its love of life to the political spin doctors latching on to whatever topic will get them the most votes. Big Brother doesn’t live here yet but it sure looks like he is checking out the realty.

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