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    <title>Right Versus Librarians</title>
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    <published>2007-10-11T16:53:40-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-07T15:59:26-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Ezra</name>
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    <category term="Anti-Gay" />
    <category term="Censorship" />
    <category term="Media Research Center" />
    <category term="Robert Knight" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A few years ago, anti-gay activists   found themselves having a rough time in their attempts to vilify the <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/arts/07GAY.htm?ex=1192248000&amp;en=0ae131f668a973df&amp;ei=5070" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/arts/07GAY.htm?ex=1192248000&amp;en=0ae131f668a973df&amp;ei=5070">gay   penguins</a> of Central Park Zoo in New York, but it seems they are always looking   for ever-more sympathetic targets.</p>
<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s good news and bad news in   the world of children&rsquo;s books,&rdquo; <a title="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22783" href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22783">writes</a> Robert Knight,   head of the Media   Research Center&rsquo;s Culture and Media Institute,   adding that the &ldquo;good news&rdquo; involves banning books&mdash;a book about penguins, no   less:</p>
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<p>First, the good news: And Tango   Makes Three, a picture book for 4- to 8-year-olds about two penguins who are   into homosexual &ldquo;parenting,&rdquo; is the &ldquo;most challenged&rdquo; book on the American   Library Association&rsquo;s (ALA) Banned Books Week   list.</p>
<p>This means some parents are still on   the job and are not turning their children over to the tender mercies of the   Free Sex Lobby, which effectively runs the ALA.</p>
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<p>So, what&rsquo;s the &ldquo;bad news,&rdquo; you ask?   According to Knight, formerly a spokesman for Concerned Women for America, it&rsquo;s that fewer books are   being banned, thanks to those (supposedly sex-crazed) librarians and their   25-year campaign against censorship.</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>A few years ago, anti-gay activists   found themselves having a rough time in their attempts to vilify the <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/arts/07GAY.htm?ex=1192248000&amp;en=0ae131f668a973df&amp;ei=5070" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/arts/07GAY.htm?ex=1192248000&amp;en=0ae131f668a973df&amp;ei=5070">gay   penguins</a> of Central Park Zoo in New York, but it seems they are always looking   for ever-more sympathetic targets.</p>
<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s good news and bad news in   the world of children&rsquo;s books,&rdquo; <a title="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22783" href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22783">writes</a> Robert Knight,   head of the Media   Research Center&rsquo;s Culture and Media Institute,   adding that the &ldquo;good news&rdquo; involves banning books&mdash;a book about penguins, no   less:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>First, the good news: And Tango   Makes Three, a picture book for 4- to 8-year-olds about two penguins who are   into homosexual &ldquo;parenting,&rdquo; is the &ldquo;most challenged&rdquo; book on the American   Library Association&rsquo;s (ALA) Banned Books Week   list.</p>
<p>This means some parents are still on   the job and are not turning their children over to the tender mercies of the   Free Sex Lobby, which effectively runs the ALA.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So, what&rsquo;s the &ldquo;bad news,&rdquo; you ask?   According to Knight, formerly a spokesman for Concerned Women for America, it&rsquo;s that fewer books are   being banned, thanks to those (supposedly sex-crazed) librarians and their   25-year campaign against censorship.</p>
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