Parent loses fight to ban book in MN

An 11-member advisory committee of parents, teachers and librarians voted unanimously Thursday to keep “Abduction!” despite Shiuvan Harris’ testimony that it was too violent. Harris had filed papers to have the book pulled from the shelves of two middle- and eight elementary-school libraries.

May 21, 2006 by Uncategorized 2

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2 Responses

  1. Fang-Face says:
    May 22, 2006 at 4:15 pm

    Censorship effort

    “As a parent, I want to be able to control
    what my children have access to.”

    As a parent Mr. Harris does have and did exercise his control over what his children have access to. It’s when he stepped over the line and tried to control that access for other people’s children that he went from parenting to censorship.

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  2. Karl says:
    May 25, 2006 at 1:51 am

    Re:Censorship effort
    Amen, brother! Preach!

    Reply

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