Posted on 06/10/2002 7:16:41 AM PDT by H8DEMS
(CNSNews.com) - Simon and Schuster has published a novel featuring a 10-year-old boy who is homosexual, which is reportedly expected to be stocked in schools and libraries in Great Britain.
But America's largest teacher's union and library group are taking a hands-off approach with how to deal with the book and whether it should be placed on bookshelves in this country's schools and libraries.
According to a report in the British newspaper The Guardian, the book, entitled Strange Boy, tells the story of a boy who has a crush on a 14-year-old male friend.
Simon and Schuster admitted its decision to place the book on its "youth list," which is aimed at children as young as 13, would be controversial.
"Some people will doubtless pick up on the gay elements of the book, which are treated frankly and honestly, as being shocking and controversial," editor Stephen Cole was quoted by the newspaper. "I would argue that the real controversy of Strange Boy lies in the fact that it's not making a big deal out of having a gay child as its protagonist."
Whether the book will cross the pond to the U.S. remains to be seen but at this point, the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest teacher's union, said it would not be involved in determining whether the book would make its way into American schools.
NEA spokesman Darryl Figueroa said just because a book appears in British schools and libraries doesn't mean it will find its way to the U.S. "I wouldn't necessarily see that as a natural jump," she said.
Figueroa said that if controversy over the book did come up, it wouldn't matter because the NEA would not have anything to say about it.
"It is really not our decision about what curricula is used at various schools or what books are put in the libraries," she said. "That is not something that the teacher's union has any power over."
While the NEA may not have direct control over library book selections in schools, the union has a well-established track record of supporting homosexual advocacy in public schools.
The NEA helped develop, endorsed and distributed a guide to teachers and principles denouncing reparative therapies for homosexuals, and provides members with information about addressing homosexuality in schools, including teacher-led discussions about participating in events geared to homosexuality.
The position of the American Library Association (ALA) is that local school districts would determine whether Strange Boy would be among available reading material next fall.
"I would guess that it would be individual school districts that would make a decision like that," Beverly Becker, spokesperson for the ALA, said. "Most of those decisions take place locally."
Like the NEA, the ALA also actively supports the distribution of books focused on homosexuality. The library group has an annual award dedicated to "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered writing," has worked with various homosexual groups in "diversity" conferences and sponsored the "Gay Teens in the 21st Century" program in Chicago in 2000.
Simon & Schuster could not be reached for comment about the book, Strange Boy, Friday. The book publishing company operates in Australia, Canada, The United Kingdom and the United States.
The homosexual community did not make it to the desired in-roads as quickly as it had hoped so they are leapfrogging to the children. Liberals and homosexuals are learning that if they get to the children first, they can circumvent conservatives.
What's sad is in NORMAL development, these early crushes take a back seat to a renewed interest in the OPPOSITE sex.
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Distributing this book, with its homosexual overtones, to young boys, should be considered child abuse. Schools should have no business teaching anything about sexuality to our kids, other than the basic biologic facts. Parents have abdicated their rights to instruct their kids in the complex subject of sexuality to homosexuals, Planned Parenthood types, pro-abortionists, and the enablers of the sexually promiscous. It's time to protect your children, and to TAKE THE SCHOOLS BACK.
Absolutely. Homosexual activists and their supporters are child molesters. They have inserted their perverted sexual behavior into the minds of very young children (5, 6, 7, 8,9 years old) and forced the children and their parents to address this perversion. Children at this age are unable to grasp the reality of this perversion and I think having it shoved down their throat by teachers, television, movies, activists as a "positive, normal" activity, has great potential to harm their normal sexual development. They want to pervert them before they have any chance of establishing normal sexual desires. Misery loves company.
Sorta helps one understand a key link between homosexuals and the pro-aborts.
Assuming anyone else -- like me -- wonders what the hell homosexuals care about the female Breeder's "right" to off her own.
Someone should write to them and ask why they don't make a book about little johnny and his secret crush on his dog. Can't leave out the beastials, can we? Someone might get their feelings hurt--except the ignorant Christians--who cares if they're offended.
I swear I will never buy another book from them again.
I think the connection is twofold:
(The really great thing being that all this sound and fury over "fighting" to keep it legal is such a joke given the fact that Republicans have recognized Legal Abortion as absolutely critical to successful population control since 1974 (NSSM-200). Suckers.)
Without the Mother-Only right to homocide, no one (not homosexuals, infertile breeders or Uncle Sam) would be able to buy, sell, experiment upon, destroy -- and sometimes implant in a uterus, even -- the distinct unborn human lives folks like to pretend are tadpoles, not frogs.
Michael, a homosexual 3rd grade teacher,is a busy boy:
We had our first Gay Pride Week Committee meeting at school.
Read several reviews of this book in the British press. They are more concerned about the plot development than they are about the content.
They are quite diverse in their titles. S&S also published Rush Limbaugh's two best sellers (through their Pocket Books division).
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