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" torresD" |
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11 Mar 2006 02:50:14 PM |
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Re: Too Gay For Kids - say parents |
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRF_BOOK_FLAP?SITE=FLTAM
Mar 4, 12:22 PM EST
Parents Complain About Book's Undertones
SAVANNAH, Mo. (AP) --
A children's book about two male penguins
that raise a baby penguin has been moved
to the nonfiction section of two public
library branches after parents complained
it had homosexual undertones.
The illustrated book,
"And Tango Makes Three,"
is based on a true story
of two male penguins,
named Roy and Silo,
who adopted an abandoned egg
at New York City's Central Park
Zoo in the late 1990s.
The book,
written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson,
was moved from the children's section at
two Rolling Hills' Consolidated Library's
branches in Savannah and St. Joseph
in northwest Missouri.
Two parents had expressed
concerns about the book
last month.
Barbara Read, the Rolling Hills' director,
said experts report that adoptions aren't
unusual in the penguin world. However,
moving the book to the nonfiction
section would decrease the chance
that it would "blindside" readers, she said.
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| User: "Secret Squirrel" |
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| Title: Re: Too Gay For Kids - say parents |
12 Mar 2006 02:57:55 PM |
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" torresD" <torresd30@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:aKGQf.2929$sL2.2216@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRF_BOOK_FLAP?SITE=FL
TAM Mar 4, 12:22 PM EST
Parents Complain About Book's Undertones
SAVANNAH, Mo. (AP) --
A children's book about two male penguins
that raise a baby penguin has been moved
to the nonfiction section of two public
library branches after parents complained
it had homosexual undertones.
The illustrated book,
"And Tango Makes Three,"
is based on a true story
of two male penguins,
named Roy and Silo,
who adopted an abandoned egg
at New York City's Central Park
Zoo in the late 1990s.
The book,
written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson,
was moved from the children's section at
two Rolling Hills' Consolidated Library's
branches in Savannah and St. Joseph
in northwest Missouri.
Two parents had expressed
concerns about the book
last month.
Barbara Read, the Rolling Hills' director,
said experts report that adoptions aren't
unusual in the penguin world. However,
moving the book to the nonfiction
section would decrease the chance
that it would "blindside" readers, she said.
So, we can have a movie glorifying the supposed "family
values" of penquins, and have that shown to kids, but
cannot have a story (equally true) that shows that
exclusive homosexuality among some individuals among
them also occurs? Did said parents also complain about
the movie? Or did that just better fit with their
prejudices?
This is why I distrust private education, and the
corresponding belief that parents should have the power
to play Joe Stalin over their children, shutting off
completely factual information from them as part of
their "right" to indocatrinate. This is done from
fundamentalist schools to Waldorf education; both
regards children as something less than fully equal.
Secret Squirrel
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Too Gay For Kids - say parents |
12 Mar 2006 06:42:17 PM |
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Secret Squirrel wrote:
So, we can have a movie glorifying the supposed "family
values" of penquins, and have that shown to kids, but
cannot have a story (equally true) that shows that
exclusive homosexuality among some individuals among
them also occurs? Did said parents also complain about
the movie? Or did that just better fit with their
prejudices?
MOTP was generally pretty good, but I got tired of
right-wingers saying it was a ringing endorsement
of their ideology. It isn't.
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: Too Gay For Kids - say parents |
12 Mar 2006 10:46:28 PM |
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wrote in news:1142210537.047105.250260
@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
Secret Squirrel wrote:
So, we can have a movie glorifying the supposed "family
values" of penquins, and have that shown to kids, but
cannot have a story (equally true) that shows that
exclusive homosexuality among some individuals among
them also occurs? Did said parents also complain about
the movie? Or did that just better fit with their
prejudices?
MOTP was generally pretty good, but I got tired of
right-wingers saying it was a ringing endorsement
of their ideology. It isn't.
Were they right-wing penguins?
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.thoughts.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice
of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of
increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to
all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
-- Harry S. Truman, message to Congress, August 8, 1950
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Too Gay For Kids - say parents |
13 Mar 2006 05:06:56 PM |
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Enkidu wrote:
MOTP was generally pretty good, but I got tired of
right-wingers saying it was a ringing endorsement
of their ideology. It isn't.
Were they right-wing penguins?
No, because John Knight would insist black and
white feathers not be on the same penguin. Bush
would more likely have two black feathers on his
penguin and say any criticism of the fact the
penguin can't fish is directed against the fact
that the penguin is has black feathers.
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| User: "Cary Kittrell" |
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| Title: Re: Too Gay For Kids - say parents |
13 Mar 2006 05:14:29 PM |
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In article <1142291215.917854.141200@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> writes:
Enkidu wrote:
MOTP was generally pretty good, but I got tired of
right-wingers saying it was a ringing endorsement
of their ideology. It isn't.
Were they right-wing penguins?
No, because John Knight would insist black and
white feathers not be on the same penguin. Bush
would more likely have two black feathers on his
penguin and say any criticism of the fact the
penguin can't fish is directed against the fact
that the penguin is has black feathers.
On the other hand, they change mates every season,
not unlike Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh...
-- cary
(besides, John Knight isn't right-wing -- he's eight
standard deviations past that)
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Too Gay For Kids - say parents |
13 Mar 2006 08:06:53 AM |
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In <Xns9784D35F951C7255229@130.133.1.4>, Enkidu <jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com>
wrote:
man_in_black529@yahoo.com wrote in news:1142210537.047105.250260
@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
Secret Squirrel wrote:
So, we can have a movie glorifying the supposed "family values" of
penquins, and have that shown to kids, but cannot have a story (equally
true) that shows that exclusive homosexuality among some individuals
among them also occurs? Did said parents also complain about the movie?
Or did that just better fit with their prejudices?
MOTP was generally pretty good, but I got tired of right-wingers saying
it was a ringing endorsement of their ideology. It isn't.
Were they right-wing penguins?
I thought Bill Gates said penguins were commies?
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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Dorothy left Kansas and simply went to Mardi Gras."
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Um... didn't foresee what exactly?
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"Everything New Orleans"
http://www.nola.com
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