1ST AMENDMENT UNDER FIRE Critic calls event a 'hoax perpetrated on the American public since 1982'
Is library association's 'Banned Book Week' really 'gay' promotion?
Critic calls event a 'hoax perpetrated on the American public since 1982'
The First Amendment that assures Americans free speech has been hijacked for a political agenda that promotes homosexuality and other sexual alternatives to children through the nation's libraries, contends an advocate for safe and secure reading institutions.
The American Library Association this week is conducting its annual promotion of a "gay"-friendly agenda to school children across the nation through its highly publicized "Banned Book Week."
Dan Kleinman of SafeLibraries.org told WND he believes the ALA's list of books "is intentionally and deceptively false and is being used to promote a political agenda."
Linda Harvey of MissionAmerica.org, who monitors homosexual activism aimed at the youth culture, has called "Banned Book Week" a "smokescreen of hypocrisy."
"It's that special time each year when some in the library profession point an accusing finger at parents, especially Christians or conservatives, who might dare to question the value or appropriateness of certain materials available to youth," she has concluded.
Harvey said the ALA "has become a megaphone for leftist values and a disinformation tool to prevent traditional values from getting much shelf space in libraries."
Each September the ALA highlights a list of 10 books that it claims were the most "challenged" books the previous year. Along with "Banned Book Week," the ALA also has declared Sept. 28 as "Banned Website Awareness Day," voicing opposition to any restriction on Web content for children.
Kleinman said the ALA contention that there are many attempts by censor-mongers to restrict children's access to its favorite tomes is not entirely accurate.
He said he contacted Bryan Campbell of the ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom to find out just how many complaints the top 10 "challenged" books receive.
Kleinman said that Campbell was very forthcoming and told him that the No. 1 book on the Top 10 banned book list only received four complaints nationwide in all of 2010.
"The ALA site says, 'There have been dozens of attempts to remove 'And Tango Makes Three' from school and public library shelves,' That is false. The actual number is, are you sitting down, four," Kleinman said.
The ALA declined to respond to WND requests for comment.
"And Tango Makes Three" has been on the ALA's top banned books list for several years. The most recent published on the ALA website is the 2010 list. According to the ALA it "is an award-winning children's book about the true story of two male Emperor Penguins hatching and parenting a baby chick at New York's Central Park Zoo."
But Harvey has pointed out the failings of the book, which is used by homosexuals to endorse the idea that homosexuality is throughout "nature."
She has written that the book is supposed to teach "the valuable lesson that if two male penguins in Central Park Zoo can pair up and adopt a baby penguin, same-sex coupling must be OK for humans, too. Only problem is that the real penguin duo inspiring this story has split. 'Silo' ... discovered his male attraction to a female penguin, blasting the interspecies analogy to bits. Yet the misleading book remains."
A Washington Times columnist also has joined the team of critics over the apparent deception.
Robert Knight wrote that the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the ALA is counting on school districts' budget problems to keep them from fighting threatened lawsuits regarding students' access to pornography.
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