In Pennsylvania:
''I saw them at the altar and I said, 'This can't be what I'm thinking,''' Eileen Issa said, recalling illustrations of the prince holding hands with and kissing his new husband. ''I was sick.''
Since that day, Issa and her husband, Jeff, have demanded that the library take it out of circulation.
The library director and the library board have stayed firm -- the book stays.
Oh man, these guys are winners. This was my favorite: "I just want kids to enjoy their innocence and their time of growing up," Jeff Issa said, explaining his persistence. "Let them be kids ... and not worry about homosexuality, race, religion. Just let them live freely as kids."
Yeah, we don't want to bog kids down with messages of tolerance and the tools they need to think critically about whatever brainwashing their parents are doing. That would be TERRIBLE.
Posted by: Renay | 30 November 2007 at 03:15 PM
I love that quote, too. He doesn't want kids worrying about homosexuality, race, or religion. I guess that means he wants all the books with black people removed. And those little picture book bible stories.
Posted by: Elizabeth | 30 November 2007 at 05:57 PM
I think what troubles me about this the most is a comment a friend of mine made when the MA "marriage" thing was going down, that bigotry toward homosexuals was the last acceptable prejudice.
This woman thinks it's okay to say that an (extremely) chaste peck on the cheek makes her feel "sick"?
Well . . . No. Sorry. I think she's wrong about that. Let's just leave it at that.
Posted by: cc | 02 December 2007 at 12:10 AM