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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Homo / Books Scholastic Reverses its Stupid Homophobic Decision

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:22 PM

On Monday, I wrote about how childrens book publisher Scholastic insisted that the author of Luv Ya Bunches transform a lesbian couple raising a child in her book into a heterosexual couple raising a child. I also linked to a petition that people could sign to notify Scholastic that scrubbing gay people out of children's literature is not okay.

Slog Tipper Ben sends word that Scholastic is doing the right thing:

During the past 48 hours more than 4,000 Change.org members joined in calling for Scholastic Books to reverse their decision to exclude a book from Scholastic's popular book fairs, simply because the book featured two moms raising a child. The book in question is Luv Ya Bunches by best-selling children’s book author Lauren Myracle. If this book isn't on your must-read list yet, it should be simply for its ability to spark conversations about the role LGBT parents play in our society.

Late today we got word, after discussions with Scholastic representatives, that the company has decided to reverse their earlier decision and include the book in their spring book fairs. That's an awesome victory from one of the biggest and most influential educational book publishers and book retailers in the world, and it sends the clear message that there's absolutely nothing wrong with two men or two women raising a child.

Who says online petitions don't work? Yay for Scholastic finally coming around, and hooray for everyone who signed the petition.

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Lord knows that LovesChildPorn will be all over this like stink on shit.

Posted by The Amazing Jim

on October 28, 2009 at 12:30 PM

I'm just relieved that no one will be teaching faggotry to my kids in school.

Posted by SandraD on October 28, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Fantastic!

I wish I had known about the petition to sign it.

Posted by balderdash

on October 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM

wow, i specifically did not sign the online petition, because online petitions never ever work!

kudos to scholastic for the ability to change their minds!

Posted by Josh Bomb

on October 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM

Where does it say they responded to an online petition?

Every online petition that has been forwarded to me has no beginning and no specified end -- only some vague "pass this on to everyone you know."

I don't see how they can work. If I sent it to 100 of my closest friends and they did the same, names would be repeaed all over the place....

Posted by hartiepie on October 28, 2009 at 4:39 PM

For 2:

Look at me, I'm SandraD,
Lousy with virginity.
Won't go to bed 'til I'm legally wed
I can't—I'm SandraD!

I believe faggotry is on our agenda for next year.

Posted by rob!

on October 28, 2009 at 7:15 PM

6 glad you got it

Posted by thanks for sharing on October 29, 2009 at 6:01 AM

I'll reserve my personal opinion on whether there is anything wrong with two gay men or two gay women raising a child. More to the point, most of American parents don't want their children picking up that book in a book fair at school.
Most people want to get along with others and don't really care about who is gay and who's not. I don't want gay issues thrust in the face of my children at such a young age. I don't think anyone-including gays-actually WANT their children to go through life with the pain of living a gay lifestyle. So why lionize it? Are we trying to make the few dozen children cursed with having to live under the roof with a gay couple feel better about their lot in life?

Posted by 910 on October 31, 2009 at 8:58 PM