[H8DEMS]

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.

[yendu bwam]

You know, many young boys look up to older boys as what they'd like to be (stronger, more assured, more popular, etc. etc.) But what the homosexual groups want is to take any young kid who knows virtually nothing about sexuality, and push him into the homosexual lifestyle before he's even had a chance to let his sexuality develop naturally and normally - and before he's even had a chance to develop the natural and normal attraction for girls. They are kid snatchers. And they seek to act without parents' knowing or consenting to what's going on. It is an evil trade they ply.

[RAT Patrol]

Well, isn't that lovely. (barf!)

[Dakmar]

Invasion of the Baby Snatchers.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Liberal Groups Back Away From Book On 10-Year-Old Homosexual

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[Constitutionalist Conservative]

FWIW, I noticed that in the S&S U.K. website, the entry for Strange Boy contains no description.

[Kevin Curry]

How sweet. A "positive" book about a ten year-old boy who has a crush on a male teen. A book that seeks to normalize adult-child homosexual perversions by pitching them not as pedophilia, but as as wholesome homosexual "love."

I'd call it gerontophilia. Either way, NAMBLA will be thrilled.

[avenir]

Heterosexuality doesn't have to rush around in fits trying to get people to accept it as a norm: it IS the norm. All of history, all of biology, all of reality supports heterosexuality.

Homosexuality will forever be known, even if only intuitively, to be a distortion of reality...no matter what window dressing and applause it is given.

[A CA Guy]

How about shelving some nice books about students who want to blow their teachers away with guns and razor blades?

THAT would be bad, but screwing with a 13 year old's mind isn't?

How messed up is that?

[Map Kernow]

In California about 1978, they had an ballot initiative called (if I recall correctly) the "Briggs initiative" that would have banned homosexuals from teaching in public schools. One of the arguments made for the initiative was that absent such a ban, children in public schools would be exposed to pro-homosexual propaganda and recruitment. The anti-initiative groups, including of course the "gay rights" groups, poured scorn on the idea that gays as teachers would eventually mean a gay educational agenda in the taxpayer-funded public schools. The intiative was defeated. And its proponents were right.

[Askel5]

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

I'm sure that's why they call him "strange boy".

_________________

Jackd:

I wasn't trying in the least to rationalize homosexuality. I was merely making mention of what I'd observed and experienced. Homosexuality is exactly a dis-ordered desire and consumated in a way that is unnatural to the body ... both for its mechanics and its utter separation of the sex act from procreation.

[lavaroise]

I thought child porn was illegal.

[LTCJ]

"Some people will doubtless pick up on the gay elements of the book, which are treated frankly and honestly, as being shocking and controversial

How's this for honest and shocking: there's no such animal as a gay 10-year-old.

Animals.

[goldstategop]

Any book promoting underage sex isn't acceptable. But even liberals think a book touting the joys of adolescent butt plugging is still too avant garde for our politically correct any thing goes culture. And I suspect this is just the kind of reading material pedophiles like. No wonder its having a hard time finding readers!!!

[Slyfox]

"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."

In other words: "Criminy! They found out about it. Now we'll have to find some other way to get it in like 'Heather Has Two Mommies'."

[weegee]

Look at the ages involved. I don't know anyone that would recommend a book in which a high school freshman male (age 14) has a relationship with a 4th or 5th grade female (age 10).