[LM_NET] VA High School Library Under Fire about books

[Josephine Dervan <dervan@OPTONLINE.NET>]

from today's Washington Post:
 
 
Banned Books, Chapter 2
Conservative Group Urges Libraries to Accept Collection
By Michael Alison Chandler
Washington Post Staff Writer 
Friday, October 3, 2008; Page B01 
During a week that librarians nationwide are highlighting banned books, 
conservative Christian students and parents showcased their own collection outside 
a (Springfield, VA)  high school yesterday -- a collection they say was banned by 
the librarians themselves. 
More than 40 students, many wearing black T-shirts stamped with the words "Closing 
Books Shuts Out Ideas," said they tried to donate more than 100 books about 
homo-sexuality to more than a dozen high school libraries in the past year. The 
initiative, organized by Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, was intended 
to add a conservative Christian perspective to shelves that the students said are 
stocked with "pro-gay" books. 
Most of the books were turned down after school librarians said they did not meet 
school system standards. Titles include "Marriage on Trial: The Case Against 
Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting" and "Someone I Love Is Gay," which argues that 
homo-sexuality is not "a hopeless condition." 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203644.html
 
 

Josephine Dervan, MLS -Online Instructor 
School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Stout 
dervan at optonline.net 
dervanj@uwstout.edu 

He who has a library and a garden, wants for nothing- Cicero 

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