Illinois anti-LGBT group: Libraries need more books about same-sex parents dying

[DonViejo]

An Illinois conservative group that has been deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center said this week that children of same-sex parented families need to be exposed to more books about how their parents’ relationships are oppressing them and how much happier they will be when their parents die and they can get “finally adopted by a daddy and mommy.”

Zack Ford at Think Progress wrote that the Illinois Family Institute (IFI)’s Laurie Higgins published a blog post on Thursday in honor of Banned Book Week (Sep. 21-27) in which she said that librarians should refuse to stock books that portray same-sex relationships in a positive light, but instead should carry authors that denigrate the experience of being raised by same-sex parents and explore how children are harmed in those homes.

Taking aim at the American Library Association (ALA) and its effort to stamp out racism and bigotry in children’s literature, Higgins wrote, “The ALA pursues its hysteria-fomenting goal chiefly by ridiculing parents who, for example, don’t want their six-year-olds seeing books about children or anthropomorphized animals being raised by parents in homoerotic relationships.”

Presumably Higgins is objecting to books like And Tango Makes Three, a children’s book which tells the story of a penguin chick who is adopted by two male penguins.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/05/illinois-anti-lgbt-group-libraries-need-more-books-about-same-sex-parents-dying/

[randys1]

1. Say hello to mainstream America if repubs take Senate, hold house and then steal WH

We are only two years away from Gay people being criminals for being Gay

We are only two years away from all minorities being official second class citizens

We are only two years away from many many WOMEN dying from botched, illegal abortions


Hate group? Hell, mainstream american religious group if these sick fucks take power.

[lunasun]

4. Yep no surprise their contact info is in a town where Minorities have experienced racism too

Illinois had state rep from suburban Chicago who got 48% running on basically an anti gay anti immigrant platform

No big deal you say but I say in Illinois !
Repugs gaming power by picking up more and more hate voters
Dick Durbin in senate is getting a run this time . Our house rep make up won't change
Hate was never this mainstream , or is it that we are less segregated and out of the closet now so there is more to hate right in their face? Sad tolerance is shadowed by people like her and there are so many now.
Are they breeding more?

Religious women like this are some of the sickest and promote poor female death not life regarding abortion

[Wait Wut]

2. Holy shit!

What the living hell is wrong with these people? How can you 1) Wish for the death of two loving parents and 2) Want to teach a child to hate their parents and hope they freakin' die? Damnit! Hate! How do you hate so much that you can actually think this crap?

We need a "Screaming My Bloody Head Off" smilie.

[riversedge]

3. Some days I am still stunned by the hatred of these groups

and what they want to do to children!


I think I am so 'used to it"--until I see stuff like this!!