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Banning books, building walls. Always bad.
But I also thing arguments are being mixed. One thing is to not include a book in teaching curriculum. Another thing is to ban it from a library.
Pretending this was NOT religious is either naive or intellectually dishonest.
And, as a general rule, I can't take anyone seriously who speaks of 'deviant sexual behavior'. That's just code for 'you are different and I don't like you'.
And yes, I live in the bible belt. In the bucket of it, Oklahoma. Oh the irony, calling this 'the land of the free, the home of the brave'. Free to read what religious nuts approve? Brave enough to be scared of a book, afraid of revolutionary ideas such as Darwin?
No offense, I love my adoptive country. But I don't love the censors.
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