School Board May Censor Books, Hand Out Bibles
Young supports a recent board recommendation that calls for “removing anything (from reading lists) that provides a neutral or positive view of immorality or foul language.”
But some in the southern Maryland county are upset, fearing that some board members are attempting to impose personal religious and moral beliefs on the public schools.
They point to the book list and a proposal that recommends distributing Bibles in schools, removing science books “biased towards evolution” and teaching sexual education classes focused exclusively on abstinence.
“They’re basically trying to skew the curriculum, to teach their own conservative Christian values,” said Meg MacDonald, a representative from the Charles County Education Association.
I think they should ban the dictionary until it stops being so morally neutral.
Eventually, entries could read like:
And people wonder why I belong to the ACLU.
Amazing. …such censorship would deplete most books in any given library, because most authors assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the reader will bring their own morals and values to the table when they read the book and do not have to explicitly pronounce that “this is bad” or “this is good”.
‘Immorality or foul language’, eh?
Then the bible will have to go, too, unless coprophagia and ‘golden showers’ are practices of the Elect.
Maybe they should ban all photographs and photojournalism collections, considering that photos are morally neutral. For instance, If a book has a photo of Hitler, a librarian with a sharpie might write (Very bad man) in the margin, thereby morally correcting it. This would be cheaper than just throwing the book away.
Oh, this is Maryland. I thought you wrote Iran.
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