West Bend couple circulate petitions to remove library books they consider obscene:
"She questions why a taxpayer-funded library makes available "every latest
gay-affirming book, including those designed to open up young minds to the false
and dangerous notion that homosexuality is normal."
Tyree said the library does not have flags on shelves promoting books with
homosexual themes. "The balance we achieved here was to provide homosexual books
with the heterosexual," he said.
Ginny Maziarka described two of the books the couple targeted for removal from the
teen section, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "The Geography Club," as
"explicitly sexual." A third book, "Deal With It! a whole new approach to your
body, brain and life as a gURL," is pornographic and "worse than an R-rated movie,"
Maziarka said.
"Get them out of the kids' faces at the library," she said."
...
"We buy books based upon reviews" by the School Library Journal, Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly, Booklist of the American Library Association, Kirkus Reviews and
other sources, Tyree said. Those long-established review sources would identify
books as obscene, Tyree said.
Tyree described the books targeted by the Maziarkas as age-appropriate for young
adults. He acknowledged they contain sexual content.
"What is obscene?" he said. "It's not up to them to tell the community what is
obscene."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/ozwash/42239872.html
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Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS
Librarian
Damrosch Day Treatment School
NYC Department of Education
750 Jennings Street
Bronx, NY 10459
voice: 718 378-0006 x2172
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without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in
my life." - Malcolm X
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libraries if the libraries are closed." - Officer Dombranski, NYPD
"The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with
other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don’t have to
write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with
characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result." -
Louis Sachar
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