Another vicory in the War On Whoopie!!!

This is out of Pennsylvania.

A royal reception for 'King & King'?A local couple's attempt to have a gay-themed book banned spurred others to make it far more available.
By Kevin Amerman | Of The Morning Call
January 6, 2008

A controversial gay-themed children's book which just weeks ago was unavailable at most local public libraries is now more widely accessible after a couple's attempt to have the book removed from the Lower Macungie Library backfired.
Following news coverage of the library's denial of the request, a local gay activist group sent it a $50 donation and purchased the controversial book ''King & King'' for four area public libraries that didn't carry it. At least three of the libraries in Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton have accepted the book into their circulations following reviews.

''We're a district library, so we try to have a wide selection of books,'' said Melanie Fisk, youth services coordinator at the Bethlehem Area Public Library.

Fisk said the library also received another copy of ''King & King'' and its sequel through anonymous donations, and they too have been accepted into circulation.

''King & King,'' a tale about a prince who is urged by his aging mother to marry a princess but instead falls in love with and marries a princess's brother, has caused controversy nationwide.

In September, Jeff and Eileen Issa began urging the Lower Macungie Library to take the book out of the children's section of the library, saying the topic of homosexuality is too heavy for small children. Appalled by images of two princes standing together at an altar and later kissing, the couple encouraged about 40 other residents to sign a petition to yank it from the library. The couple eventually petitioned the township supervisors, who voted 2-1 in November not to overrule the library.

The library said it strives to provide books with varying themes and said parents should be the ones to screen books if they chose to. The Pennsylvania Diversity Network, headquartered in Allentown, applauded the stance with its donation and purchased four copies of ''King & King'' for the other libraries.

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Several points to make about this issue.

1. The Holy Terrors have once again demonstrated that they hold the rest of us in contempt. Rather than trust us to judge for ourselves what we might want our children to be exposed to, they insist on removing from us our right to exercise that judgment. Maybe I want my children to be exposed to the concept of homosexuality at an early age, especially when the subject relates carefully to tolerance and acceptance of "deviant" lifestyles, and of the choices other people make when it comes to their sex lives. Then again, maybe I DON'T want my kids exposed to that stuff. But the point is, they're MY kids, and the decision should be left up to me, instead of Jeff and Eileen Issa.

2. This is why, ultimately, the Holy Terrors will lose this War On Whoopie, for the same reasons attempts to censor and stifle free expression always fail. Telling someone they can't do something is the perfect way to guarantee they'll take a stab at it. Any parent knows that.

More later. Maybe. I've just taken a heavy duty painkiller and washed it down with a couple of beers. I can feel the fur growing on my brain.