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Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 27, 2014 at 10:05 pm
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/27/co...-students/
Quote:Concerned Idaho citizen calls police over public banned book giveaway to high school students
Quote:In early April, the school board voted 2-1 to remove the winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature from the 10th grade curriculum following complaints from some parents concerned that the book contained sexually charged material and mocked the Christian religion.
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RE: NExt They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 27, 2014 at 10:10 pm
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RE: Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm
Quote:the book contained sexually charged material and mocked the Christian religion.
I wonder which upset them more?
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RE: Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm
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They can't debunk the criticisms, and they're not allowed to kill heretics, so they just have to ban things that make them uncomfortable.
Sexually charged material already mocks christian values, so it's a two for one.
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RE: Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 27, 2014 at 10:15 pm
(April 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Quote:the book contained sexually charged material and mocked the Christian religion.
I wonder which upset them more?
That they have to live a life of suppressing sexual desires that their religion doesn't allow them to embrace.
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RE: Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 27, 2014 at 10:17 pm
(April 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Chad32 Wrote: They can't debunk the criticisms, and they're not allowed to kill heretics, so they just have to ban things that make them uncomfortable.
Sexually charged material already mocks christian values, so it's a two for one.
Yup, they certainly can't get away with killing us anymore.
By that criteria, the bible mocks Christian values, considering it's full of rape, sex and incest.
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RE: Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 27, 2014 at 10:17 pm
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RE: Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 28, 2014 at 7:15 pm
(April 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Chad32 Wrote: They can't debunk the criticisms, and they're not allowed to kill heretics, so they just have to ban things that make them uncomfortable.
Sexually charged material already mocks christian values, so it's a two for one.
Do you want the public schools to have the students read books with sexually charged material?
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Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 28, 2014 at 7:17 pm
(April 28, 2014 at 7:15 pm)Lek Wrote: (April 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Chad32 Wrote: They can't debunk the criticisms, and they're not allowed to kill heretics, so they just have to ban things that make them uncomfortable.
Sexually charged material already mocks christian values, so it's a two for one.
Do you want the public schools to have the students read books with sexually charged material?
Good reason to not allow the bible in public schools!
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RE: Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them
April 28, 2014 at 7:20 pm
(April 28, 2014 at 7:15 pm)Lek Wrote: (April 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm)Chad32 Wrote: They can't debunk the criticisms, and they're not allowed to kill heretics, so they just have to ban things that make them uncomfortable.
Sexually charged material already mocks christian values, so it's a two for one.
Do you want the public schools to have the students read books with sexually charged material?
I would like comprehensive sex education to be in schools, given that abstinence only is unhealthy and doesn't work.
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