How a bout a sequel- "God said it was ok to sell my sister into slavery" and "God told my dad to marry my Aunt"

How did the kid end up blond with a black father?

No wonder he asked if he was adopted

B&N carries drivel along with the other books..it's just capitalism

If they got married before Loving v. Virginia, they aren't your legal parents. Probably mom is but not dad.

In the 1950s the parents would have told junior to pray for the unholy spawn of couple like the Lovings.

I love that graphic.

I use this one every year because some of my other favorites always get me into trouble here


Enjoy

even if the book is incredibly stupid.

I don't know that my grocer favors banning Playboy, but my grocer declines to carry it because s/he feels the shopping audience is not appropriate.

...of course the racks of Cosmo and very humid romance novels are perfrctly OK......

I worked in a couple of bookstores and we carried everything that currently was in print. I got many complaints from customers on some books they didn't approve of but we also carried books they would like. You know I cringe every time I see the current brain farts of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter at the library, but they also have books by Naomi Wolf, Thom Hartmann and Bill Moyers.

Someone gave me a copy of a RWer's book once (I'm blanking on the name...Goldberg, the guy who whines about liberal bias in the "news" media). I can't bring myself to destroy a book, but I don't want to return it to the world where it could pollute someone's mind. So, I just keep it. I'll probably have it until I die.

Remember her? She was Linda Tripp's BFF and a major meddler in the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. Actually, I should thank him. He was instrumental in me finding DU. I was so mad about some nasty remark he made during the Medicare prescription drug debate about "pills for old people", that I went to Media Whore's Online to snark about it. It was there on the list of recommended websites that I clicked on Democratic Underground and they haven't been able to get rid of me since then.

I didn't know he was related to her. Ugh. What a pair.

Thanks!

Do you find that surprising, too?

Your point is taken. I don't think anyone particularly wants B & N to be in the censorship business. They carry everything from Ann Coulter to Penthouse Letters to gun catalogs. This is how it should be for adult customers.

However......

This is the kids section we are talking about here. Let's say I wrote an illustrated kids book. In this book, I am explaining to little Billy why people of the same race should live together in exclusive groups. I take Billy to the zoo, and I show him that the pengiuns live with penguins; the bears live with bears; and that the lions don't live with the the tigers. I then explain to Billy that this is how we are designed. There are different groups of people, and they are all designed to stay in their groups. I'd respectfully suggest to you that if that book were put into a children's section at B & N (or any reputable bookseller), there'd be some outrage. People would say "this is not the lesson we want to teach our kids."

I also realize we can split that hair about 80 ways. I could write a kids book about Robert E. Lee (it's been done, obviously): is he a hero? a traitor? a valiant soldier? a flawed man who supported slavery? Even in the realm of books aimed at youth, there's be a lot of room for differing viewpoints.

There's a whole faction of adults who think the Harry Potter books are the work of the devil. Do you want B & N to capitulate into them and ban Harry Potter? When you get right down to it all the books of fairy stories are actually tales extrapolated from ancient pre-Christian religions. I think it's okay for those books to be sold. I hope teachers and relatives of those kids will explain what's wrong with them. Kids are smart, even when their parents aren't, and are able to sort out the messaging better than you think.

I remember all the Christian flavored fiction I was required to read when I was a child especially about the life of Jesus and the lives of saints. If I and every Catholic that was exposed to this took those books seriously, we would all be celibates, who wore sack cloth and ate one meal a day of porridge. Our days would be spent in prayer when we weren't doing good works.

That book probably won't even get read by most of the kids exposed to it. It looks rather boring and uninspiring.

So stop saying that!

Heck, according to Rev. Pat Robertson, Christians shouldn't adopt children. I'm not even going to touch on the 'pray for your friend who has 2 fathers' idiocy. His friend, who is also probably adopted, is damned lucky to have parents who love and care for him. That's what I thought the Christian god wanted for children.

pick up that new Coulter book and forgetfully leave it in the self help section ...sometimes the staff will help you play the game.

Don't do this ! okay ?

when I go in there.

"After school, his father takes him to the zoo, where he learns that animal families consist of a male, a female, and their offspring."

Uh, lions, wolves, and most herd animals do not live in monogamous families. Generally there is one, maybe two males to a number of females. Many animals live singly with the mothers raising the young and absentee fathers whose only contribution was sperm.

For milennia farmers have kept only one male to impregnate their herds of females, so even in Biblical times, these facts were known. But I guess it is more important to religious whack jobs to distort facts to fit their political agenda than to actually educate their children.

I go in there and there's an entire isle in the kids section for Christian books and I am in the Northwest. I try to find kid Buddhist books but can't find a single one, but there's dozens of kid Christian books.

should not ban things. That seems so basic to me.

I also think there's a world of difference between what you'd offer to sell consenting adults versus what you'd sell in your kid's section. I don't think anyone would carry a kids book, for example, by the Westboro Baptist Church.

I'm big on the "freedom of speech" thing.