Fun with Obscenity.

In Michigan:

Livingston County Prosecutor David Morse expects to decide by next week whether three challenged books used in Howell High School classrooms meet the legal definition of obscenity.

The books?

The Freedom Writers Diary, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Richard Wright's Black Boy.  The group that filed the complaints recently added Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five to their list.

Whenever anyone objects to Slaughterhouse-Five, I just want to watch Footloose again.  Good thing I own it.

In Kansas:

Fears that schools would be forced to ban books by such writers as Toni Morrison, Richard Wright and Maya Angelou doomed a bill Wednesday making it easier to prosecute teachers for promoting obscenity.

The measure, pushed by conservative Johnson County legislators amid a dispute over school reading lists there, would end the automatic protection elementary, middle and high school teachers enjoy from prosecution over materials used in classes. On a voice vote, the House sent the bill back to committee.

All I want to know is this:  Who picked the font?

[Later:  Maud on obscenity.]

Comments

[Lady S]

I am trying to read all the books on the ALA 100 most banned or challenged list, so I read Slaughterhouse-Five this past year. I didn't like it. (I have like other Vonnegut books.) However, I guess I missed why it is so objectionable. At least compared to the movies that kids are watching these days.

[Jen Robinson]

I think it's a good idea to watch Footloose every once in a while anyway. So fun!