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Default Christian Taliban Gets Vonnegut Banned in School District

On 29/07/2011 12:02 PM, X-Man wrote:
On 7/29/11 9:00 AM, X-Man wrote:
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2011/07/...trict_bans.php


" Remember when The New York Times' David Carr made an offhand comment
about Missouri and Kansas being home to "the dance of the low, sloping
foreheads," and everyone got mad at East Coast elitism? It's infuriating
to feel like people are judging you based on your zip code rather than
your merits, especially when those people are the ones you view as your
cultural allies.

That said, this story is a perfect example of why people elsewhere look
down on us. Because it's hard to remember the last time a NYC school
banned a book because someone complained it taught "principles contrary
to the Bible."


In Republic, Missouri, the Republic High School board has unanimously
voted to ban Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Sarah Ockler's
Twenty Boy Summer. The books were named in a public complaint filed last
year, along with the Laurie Halse Anderson novel Speak, which managed to
stay on school shelves."


Christianity will result in the downfall of America.


Debtor delinquency will result in the downfall of America.

There, fixed it for ya.

--
Obama, enslaving Americans with debt-tax slavery for a spending binge.
Doesn't even borrow real money, Bernanke just creates it like a
counterfeiter. .