Red Commissar
4th August 2011, 22:32
The school board of Republic, Missouri, recently decided to ban two books- Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Sarah Ocker's Twenty Boy Summer, while retaining another, Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak. This came after a complaint was filed by a parent citing that the three aforementioned books had values "contrary" to the bible and should not be taught in schools, specifically in the High School where they are a part of the curriculum.
After a year looking into it, the school board finally banned two of the three books based on standards passed in April regarding violence, sexual content, drugs, etc., but essentially upholding the complaint that these books ran contrary to the bible.
Meanwhile, politicians are making the rounds talking about the dangers of "sharia" law in the United States and how it can overrule the laws "we" value. Of course there's nothing wrong with a Christian fundamentalist pushing the same vitriol.
http://blog.au.org/2011/08/02/yielding-to-censorship-mo-school-board-bans-books-that-are-%E2%80%98contrary-to-the-bible%E2%80%99/
After a year looking into it, the school board finally banned two of the three books based on standards passed in April regarding violence, sexual content, drugs, etc., but essentially upholding the complaint that these books ran contrary to the bible.
Meanwhile, politicians are making the rounds talking about the dangers of "sharia" law in the United States and how it can overrule the laws "we" value. Of course there's nothing wrong with a Christian fundamentalist pushing the same vitriol.
http://blog.au.org/2011/08/02/yielding-to-censorship-mo-school-board-bans-books-that-are-%E2%80%98contrary-to-the-bible%E2%80%99/