Book banning in Missouri

A Missouri school board has voted to remove Slaughter House Five and another book from the library for "teaching principles contrary to the Bible."
Why are social conservatives so gosh-darned terrified of the world?

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[willquestion]

"...songs at school musical performances being predominantly religious; graduation and other school events being held at churches; and the opening of school board meetings with prayer." I'm perfectly fine with UCLA sueing them and I hope my county loses so that they will learn that you can't mix religion into school systems like that.

[tetsubo57]

@willquestion Good luck.

[wakefuldreams]

I agree with everything you said. In my public schooling, we always did the list thing where parents could choose to have their kids read a different book. One time, we had a choice between 4 books to read outside of class. Two girls from conservative families weren't allowed to read 2 of the books. Girl 1 wasn't allowed to read books 1 or 2, and Girl 2 wasn't allowed to read books 3 or 4. I found that very interesting.

[tetsubo57]

@wakefuldreams It's interesting that 'conservative' folks don't seem to agree a whole lot on what conservative actually means.

[Pbirv]

"This book is unacceptable and should be burned. Now pardon me while I pattern my life on a book full of murder,rape, incest, slavery, and killing non-believers."

[Pbirv]

This merely confirms what I already know about the toxicity and danger of fundamentalist religion of any kind. There seems to be inadequate room in the human psyche for both fundamentalism and simple humanity. This is one reason I am so dismayed to watch the already odious republican party turning into a fundamentalist Christian religious cult underpinned by a criminal enterprise. This can't be good for America.

[kalozakos]

too bad you didn't read more of the quote. It is even scarier than you present. BTW the other banned book is "Twenty Boy Summer"

I read banned books.

[MrianaTroi]

I live in the area and they don't care as long as they get to impose their religious views. That's the Religious Reich for you. I don't think books should be banned at all and I made the same suggestion you did in an article I wrote. The Bile has it all, and meets the criteria they set up for banning.

[jerome96114]

This is so strange O_o ....

I am a believing christian myself, but that shool-board's desicion is just plain stupid.

Even if there weren't the first amendment ... If your faith is real, you will not change it 'cause of reading a stupid book ...

There is no need to bann it ...

[DirtyBriefcase]

I agree with you about this book baning issure. And, of course Sharia law will not be adopted as our legal system. But, that's not really the problem. If religious conservatives can strong arm or obfuscate their way around secular law any religion can, in theory, be forced onto people in the future (look at Europe). Religious conservatives are hipocrits on this issue, but for those of us who truly believe in separation of ch. and st. criticism of Sharia law influence is warranted.

[micahhenry]

Start worrying if they ban books from the public library. As a father, there are elements of society I do not want my children exposed to. And if I can limit or control that exposure, you bet your ass I will do my best. A parent's greatest fear is not being able to protect your child and this strikes at the matter. Planting your "constitution/free speech" tree in a school library is not going to bear any fruit.

[willquestion]

The ACLU is threatening to sue my county (Sumner) here in TN for, "This pattern and practice includes teachers leading students in prayer and Bible study sessions; the opening of one school to a youth minister who proselytizes frequently at student lunch tables; the distribution of Bibles during instructional time; prayer over the loudspeaker; the display of a cross on a classroom wall; preferential treatment of religious organizations in their ability to distribute materials to students..."