Another tale from the Red America that progressives are lectured to find common ground with
The Chicken Littles of the theocracy brigade act like American Christians are a martyred people, a people suffocating under the unstopable weight of the secular, homosexual, feminist and politically correct agendas.
If you don't say God or Christ every 3.2 seconds, or are slightly uncomfortable around people who do, you're anti-Christian. If you think politicians are the last people who should be lecturing others about morality, you're anti-Christian. If you believe that people should be free to use to the Bible to guide their personal conduct but that it shouldn't drive the public agenda, you're anti-Christian.
The latest 'you can't make this stuff up' story comes from none other than Alabama. Yes, the same Alabama whose voters recently rejected attempts to remove segregationist language from the state constitution.
Now, as this article from The Birmingham News reports:
An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries.
A bill by Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, would prohibit the use of public funds for "the purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle." Allen said he filed the bill to protect children from the "homosexual agenda."
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Allen said that if his bill passes, novels with gay protagonists and college textbooks that suggest homosexuality is natural would have to be removed from library shelves and destroyed.
"I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them," he said.
Furthermore,
If the bill became law, public school textbooks could not present homosexuality as a genetic trait and public libraries couldn't offer books with gay or bisexual characters.
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His bill also would prohibit a teacher from handing out materials or bringing in a classroom speaker who suggested homosexuality was OK, he said.
I'd like to think such lunacy has no chance of ever being enacted. But in addition to rejecting removal of segregationist language from the state constitution, a full 41% of Alabamans voted to preserve a ban on interracial marriage as recently as 1999.
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NYCO here. In all fairness to Alabama voters, apparently there was some sort of rider about education on that "strike segregationist language" bill which was unpopular. (the rider had nothing to do with segregation) I may be mistaken but I think that's part of the reason why the bill failed. (Of course, Alabama voters ought to be up in arms about the segregation issue on its own terms...)
As for religious stuff...
I was out shopping today and saw at the bookstore not one, but two U.S. News & World Report "Special Editions" on "Mysteries of the Bible" and "Secrets of the DaVinci Code." Done up the same way they do up their annual college ratings.
Oh, and hearing "Christmas" from the Who's "Tommy" on the holiday muzak at K-Mart. I'm trying to figure out if they thought it was a pious spiritual lament ("And Tommy doesn't know what day it is/He doesn't know who Jesus was or what praying is/How can he be saved? From the eternal grave?"), or if they just didn't give a shit, as long as it had "Christmas" in the title.
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