Scholastic Book Fairs Ban Books Feature Same-Sex Parents

by Mike Smith · 2009-10-26 10:20:00 UTC
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Scholastic have banned "Luv Ya Bunches," a book that features a character who has two lesbian moms from its book fairs. Worse than Scholastic deciding to support discrimination, it suggested that the book would be allowed, but only if the author edited it to change the story to give the character heterosexual parents. Michael Jones on the Gay Rights blog explains, "Same-sex families shouldn't be edited out of books simply to pacify a minority of anti-gay voices." By banning the book Scholastic side with profits and discrimination rather than allow schools and parents to make the decisions themselves.

This comes only a few week after Banned Books Week which provides a yearly reminder of what books have been banned over the past year — often for ridiculous reasons: Harry Potter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Catcher in the Rye have experienced censorship in the past. (Check out a map of the latest banned books.) We must remember all the wonderful books banned in the past, now revered as great, and always preserve freedom to read — it must not be up to anyone but parents to decide what should be considered objectionable.

Take Action and tell Scholastic to stop censoring books.

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Mike Smith is associate editor at Change.org.
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