Books It’s For Your Own Good
posted by June 4 at 12:00 PM
onSomething’s rotten in Nampa, Idaho:
The Nampa Public Library Board has voted to permanently remove two sex education books from library shelves, storing them instead in the library director’s office and making them available only on request.The board voted 3-2 Monday to have The New Joy of Sex and The Joy of Gay Sex kept off shelves for good, following up on a March meeting when the board voted to temporarily move the books to the director’s office.
The books, which contain drawings and photos of sexual activity, first drew criticism in 2005 from Randy Jackson, director of a Christian activist group called “Youth 4 Revolution,” based in Nampa.
Board members in 2006 unanimously rejected Jackson’s request to remove the books from the shelves. But three new board members had since been appointed by Nampa Mayor Tom Dale. All three, Bruce Skaug, Kim Keller and Sandy Levi, voted to remove the books.
(Via Bookshelves of Doom.)
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They probably get stolen about once a month.
Who would shelve a sex book on the advice of a guy named Randy Jackson? Come on.
Good. The kids can get educated by each other, one poke at a time.
And the book burnings begin when?
I could wax eloquent here about knowledge and power and control and Farenheit 451 and what role e-books could play. But, I'm just not feeling it right now.
Is it better to know, to know you could have known, or to have never known at all?
@2 'Sup, dawg! That was off the hook. Gloria hit it out of the park! Yeahhhh!
HA HA HA, Idaho has become quite the mecca for self-hating queerness.
Start the countdown clock for the revelation that Randy Johnson has been diddling little boys for decades in Nampa...
The three new board members are probably Christo-fascist infiltrators.
Do these people live under rocks? Seriously, what century are they phoning this in from?
They plan to keep these very garden variety sex manuals away from kids by taking them off LIBRARY shelves?
It's just as well, I don't think we want these people learning how to have sex anyway. Best they abstain.
haha "Youth 4 Revolution"...wasn't that Prince's backup band in the late 80s?
I can't believe there was a book titled The Joys of Gay Sex in the entire state of Idaho!
@11: Yeah, isn't that Larry Craig's state? I thought everybody in Idaho knew the (secret) joys of gay sex.
But seriously, you can still buy both of these books up the street at your local Idaho Barnes & Noble Giant Conglomerate Bookstore.
Ease off everybody - at least this is a great day for the Nampa Library Director, who'll have a lot more fun now going to work...
IIRC, Bruce Skaug used to write rabid right-wing columns for the University of Idaho Argonaut. He was the designated "controversy" guy.
What's all the fuss? It's not like a teenager could actually locate a book in a library anyway.
those titles weren't in the library when i grew up. nampa probably wishes they'd never bought them.
I wish my office had a shelf for all the naughty library books.
This is what I thought of when I read this story:
http://www.quirkyjapan.or.tv/nampa1.htm
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