A Christian group called the Christian Civil Liberties Union is trying to have a gay book publicly burned and banned in the city of Milwaukee. The book is a young adult’s book called Baby Be-Bop, written by Francesca Lia Block. The book tells the story of a gay teen who is struggling with his sexuality and is attacked by a homophobic gang.
The group requested permission to burn the book publicly from the West Bend Community Memorial Library. They also demanded $120, 000 in damages. Apparently seeing the book on display is causing damage. They are also calling for the resignation of the cities mayor, Kristine Deiss.
The group says the book is explicitly vulgar, racial and anti-Christian. The four plaintiffs, who are all elderly, claim they received emotional damage from the book. The say the reason is that the book contains the word “nigger” and derogatory sexual and political epithets. They claim the book incites violence and can “put one’s life in possible jeopardy, adults and children alike.”
The plaintiffs want a grand jury to declare the book obscene and to decide if making it available could be a hate crime.
What bull shit Christians!
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How do they get to have the word 'Liberties' in the name of their organization?!? This is just nuts - book burning in the 21st century?
These folks are obviously the spiritual brothers of those who burned the library at Alexandria. Keep your eyes peeled for people carrying abalone shells.
Oh dear, what's next? Calling journalism reports about hate crime a hate crime? They are obviously trying to turn Political Correctness on it's head. I suppose the news channels will switch their programming to cute puppy contests, since they'll be charged with hate crimes for reporting on stories... Oh, like that pasty old white guy who killed the security guard at the Holocaust museum. He had a few choice racial slurs to say about black people - shall we burn the newspapers reporting that angle?
FLB is calling it like it is, detailing real life. The CCLU knows this, they're just obsessed with finding (ridiculous) ways to try to keep us down.
They don't like the word nigger? Ask these plaintiffs if they would also like to burn Huckleberry Finn by celebrated author Mark Twain!
Bleh. Bookburnings in this age is just crazy.