Tennessee Williams Banned in Alabama? — Page 2

The pink/rainbow arm patches have been discussed before...

I believe it was that wise polical analyst Jon Stewart who observed in the days after the election "Looking at these results, I'd say tonight might be your last chance to visit a library or engage in some gay sex...I believe I might just try to kill two birds with one stone!"

The rest of the world has been seeing that America is sick for some time now.

Maybe all the "god bless america"'s have been messing with your minds...

Guys, come on. Look at other trends- 20 years after upholding an anti-sodomy law, the Supreme Court reversed itself and decided to strike them all down. At least partly because of all these gay marriage controverseys, homosexuality is being brought out into the open and discussed in mainstream culture more than ever before. I don't see a whole lot of faith in the "marketplace of ideas" here, but the reason we want libraries to have literature of all kinds is to maintain that very marketplace.

You can look at this as a straight line leading to queers being locked up in camps, or you can look at how the situations of non-whites and women have improved over the years, instead. As awful as this sounds, Jews didn't have an organized civil rights movement fighting for them in Weimar Germany.

And finally, on a more pragmatic and immediate note- do you guys really think this law is going to pass and stick around? No way. First of all, librarians really hate being told what to do, and they've been more than willing to fight censorship attempts in the past. Second, the fact that this law extends to works by gay authors(!), no matter what the content of the works, pretty much guarantees its demise. You really think there aren't some dry textbooks out there written by gays?

she was only a librarian for a moment.......she doesn't count. I don't even think she has her MLIS

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Of course it can. It can happen anywhere where people attempt to separate and differentiate a particular segment of society for the purpose of marking them out as different and shameful.

Goth---YOU'RE NEXT!

MuaHahahahahahahAHahahahahahahHa!

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Oh.my.god.
That's EXACTLY the problem with having a fundamental view of something.
Doesn't agree with your principles AFTER you've fought so long and hard for the right (i.e. spousal privileges over one another...correction: heterosexual spousal privileges!) to have something, when someone does something with which you disagree, anyone who approves of that action is an evil, activist liberal who must be defeated.
The rest of the nation clearly disagrees with you on that one, Gotham, even many of your own fundamental party.
And courts ruling that a husband has the legal rights over his wife is HARDLY the same as attempting to ban books because you disagree with their contents.

And they're completely separate and specious comments.
No one in political power killed Terri Schiavo. That decision was left to the people who had legal rights over her. Our government interfered and, in doing so, got America's back up against politicians.
Banning books is a specifically political and governmental move, something Hitler would do.
So, unless you're saying Michael Schiavo is Hitler for allowing his wife to rest and he's also trying to ban certain books in Alabama, you'd be incorrect.

Goth, are you a member of the American Taliban?

(Jerby ducks)

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Updated On: 4/29/05 at 03:01 PM

Too late robbiej, it's already been said.

Psalm 92

13Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

15To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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Psalms is old testament, right?
What do the Jews read?

So God said they'd be fat. Guess there went that argument.