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I find it hilarious that parents let themselves get bent outta shape over a paragraph in a book they're afraid their children might read UT let those same kids go to the movies and watch people get killed violently or play graphically violent video games.
It's not a book that a parent thought their child "might read" it was a book that the school told a child that she MUST read. It was assigned to her. The father was angry that no notice was given. He has the right to protect his child from filth and pornography. Just because the liberal mind is totally depraved doesn't mean that everyone should swirl down the same toilet.
Going back to 1975---
Judy Blume Showed Innocence Isn't 'Forever' : NPR
<In fifth grade, I was a member of an all-girls book club. We met by the tether-ball court during recess and read novels aloud.
Okay, just the dirty parts.
By seventh grade, the book club had disbanded. That was the year I discovered Forever.... I wasn't immediately drawn to the book. The author was Judy Blume.
It was 1993. I didn't know then that Forever... had caused an uproar when it was released in 1975, or that some people called it smut, or that it would go on to be one of the most banned books in America. Had I realized this, I would have read it much sooner.
Once I turned the first page, I was hooked. It was the narrator, Katherine's description of a boy at a party that did it:
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Judy Blume is a very good children's author.
I can remember having Wifey confiscated during lunch until the end of the school day in 7th grade. I thought the teacher was gonna blow a gasket. I also dont thimk she thought id have the nerve to claim it after school, but I did!
I find it hilarious that parents let themselves get bent outta shape over a paragraph in a book they're afraid their children might read UT let those same kids go to the movies and watch people get killed violently or play graphically violent video games.
It's not a book that a parent thought their child "might read" it was a book that the school told a child that she MUST read. It was assigned to her. The father was angry that no notice was given. He has the right to protect his child from filth and pornography. Just because the liberal mind is totally depraved doesn't mean that everyone should swirl down the same toilet.
I 5 ought the story said the parents were asked in a letter and none complained? Did he just not read the letter?
Let's put this into context shall we so all the Bible-thumping accusations are neutralized. The topic of the book is about a school shooting.. Here's one of excepts the parents are objecting to..
Relax, Matt murmured, and then he sank his teeth into her shoulder. He pinned her hands over her head and ground his hips against hers. She could feel his erection, hot against her stomach.
She couldnt remember ever feeling so heavy, as if her heart were beating between her legs. She clawed at Matts back to bring him closer.
Yeah, he groaned, and her pushed her thighs apart. And then suddenly Matt was inside her, pumping so hard that she scooted backward on the carpet, burning the backs of her legs. (H)e clamped his hand over her mouth and drove harder and harder until Josie felt him come.
Semen, sticky and hot, pooled on the carpet beneath her.
<<< From "19 Minutes" by Jody Picault >>>
Shameful --- complete and utter disrespect for "EDUCATION".... These folks on that school board ought to be locked up for distributing PORN TO MINORS.....
That's it? Yes. In the entire book that's it.
Did you ever read Catcher In the Rye in school?
The book debuted at # 1 on the NYT Bestseller list and got excellent reviews and applause for its depiction of the real world young kids face today. To ban it or criticize it over one passage is prudent and silly.
There was no illegal arrest.
As other individuals have said, the man had his allotted two minutes and he wasn't allowed more because others had the right to chime in a subjects and thus he had no right to encroach upon their time. As for the book, pornography is in the eye of the beholder and apparently, other parents saw nothing wrong with the book. And, as for his being arrested, he was disruptive and said they could arrest him. The police obliged him.
Both you and the Miami Herald are liars, the suspect was arrested for disorderly conduct, not protesting a book.
The issue has nothing to do with freedom of speech, nor is it under attack.
Speaking past 2 minutes is hardly an arrestable offense. Had he been a mouth-frothing liberal he'd still be talking and getting away with it.
How is that an "attack" on his "freedom of speech"?
Hint: the answer is in my siggy.
Everyone who objects to pornography should be arrested. Reading porn is supposed to get the children ready for the real thing with the teachers.
So...
How long have you been teaching?
Let's put this into context shall we so all the Bible-thumping accusations are neutralized. The topic of the book is about a school shooting.. Here's one of excepts the parents are objecting to..
Relax, Matt murmured, and then he sank his teeth into her shoulder. He pinned her hands over her head and ground his hips against hers. She could feel his erection, hot against her stomach.
She couldnt remember ever feeling so heavy, as if her heart were beating between her legs. She clawed at Matts back to bring him closer.
Yeah, he groaned, and her pushed her thighs apart. And then suddenly Matt was inside her, pumping so hard that she scooted backward on the carpet, burning the backs of her legs. (H)e clamped his hand over her mouth and drove harder and harder until Josie felt him come.
Semen, sticky and hot, pooled on the carpet beneath her.
<<< From "19 Minutes" by Jody Picault >>>
Shameful --- complete and utter disrespect for "EDUCATION".... These folks on that school board ought to be locked up for distributing PORN TO MINORS.....
Watch out ... freedom of speech is under attack...
Both you and the Miami Herald are liars, the suspect was arrested for disorderly conduct, not protesting a book.
The issue has nothing to do with freedom of speech, nor is it under attack.
So how are we different from Russia again? A group of masked feminists invaded a church during services and vandalized it. The protesters were arrested.
A man addresses a school board meeting without screaming or destroying. Merely to question pornography assigned to 14 year old as a reading assignment and gets arrested.
How do we have more freedom?
