[COURT ORDER: HUMANKT MATERIAL HEREBY EXPUNGED While dedicated…]
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COURT ORDER:
HUMANKT MATERIAL HEREBY EXPUNGED While dedicated teachers are opening their students' eyes to the wonderful world of books, self-appointed censors and bookburners are pulling books out of classrooms and libraries.
From Alabama to Anchorage, Alaska, school boards are being harassed and pressured by individuals and groups who demand the right to decide what students may or may not read.
Their objection to a book may be based on deep religious conviction or quite ridiculous grounds. In Anchorage, the American Heritage Dictionary was taken out of schools in 1983. A group called People for Better Education objected to the inclusion of such "obscene" words as bed, ball, tail, and nut, among others.
The majority of censors are fundamentalist Christians, members of the Religious Right. They are not frivolous in their attack on our right to read. They are determined to force their theology into America's schools.
They showed their intent in Warsaw, Ind., in 1984. Here the target of their wrath was a textbook, "Value Clarification," which advised students to examine, develop, and affirm their own values.
The Religious Right, who believe that