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The sky is falling on these two young, damaged men. Someone rescue them from their eyes and penises!
A Bentonville man asked the city to pay his two sons $20,000 and to fire the library director for including what he called “pornography” in the Bentonville Public Library collection.
“The Whole Lesbian Sex Book” by Felice Newman was removed from the library shelf after Earl Adams of Bentonville complained it is “patently offensive and lacks any artistic, literary or scientific value,” according to a letter he wrote and faxed Feb. 16 to Mayor Bob McCaslin.
Adams said his 14- and 16-year-old sons, Kyle and Ryan, looked at the book while the 14-year-old was browsing for material on military academies. He requested the city pay him $10,000 per child, the maximum allowed under the Arkansas obscenity law.
“My sons were greatly disturbed by viewing this material and this matter has caused many sleepless nights in our house,” he said in another e-mail to McCaslin earlier in February.
(Thanks, Frankie)
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April 25th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
This is ridiculous.
April 25th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
But I like it.
April 25th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
People should check out the comments appended to the news story. One writer actually describes the American Library Association as a “morally bankrupt institution.”
April 26th, 2007 at 3:07 am
Do libraries need a sign that reads “Enter at your own risk”?
Everything disturbs an adolescent. That’s why adolescence is so much, er. fun.