sometimes i think we are de-evolving

U.S. Requests to Remove Books from Libraries, 2007-2009

and if you go to the map here and click on the markers, the banned book name will come up, the story behind it comes up and if a decision has been made or not comes up

oh my goddess it's 2009 and this effing

believer in such things as 'ex' gays wants books BANNED in her PUBLIC library. you know if you're THAT worried your kids are going to read about sex or read the word 'fornication' follow them around 24/7. OR, you can love them and do your best to instill in them a sense of love, nurturing, intelligence, volunteerism, caring, humanity, ACCEPTANCE. then let them make their OWN minds up about which books to read and which not to read

silly people i guess ignorance is NOT bliss. is it ginny and jim?

Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand
By Jason Hanna

A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning.

The battle has stirred much of West Bend, a city of roughly 30,000 people about 35 miles north of Milwaukee. Residents have sparred for months on blogs, airwaves and at meetings, including one where a man told the city's library director he should be tarred and feathered.

The row even spread to this year's Fourth of July parade, which included a float featuring a washing machine and a sign that read "keep our library clean."

"If you told me we would be going through a book challenge of this nature, I'd think, 'Never in a million years,' " said Michael Tyree, director of the West Bend Community Memorial Library.

The strife began in February when West Bend couple Jim and Ginny Maziarka objected to some of the content in the city library's young-adult section. They later petitioned the library board to move any sexually explicit books -- the definition of which would be debated -- from the young-adult section to the adult section and to label them as sexually explicit.......