The vile Illinois Family Institute, best known as one-time home of Peter LaBarbera and for their relentless crusade against anti-bullying legislation, is calling for a national boycott of Scholastic Books because they will include a gay-friendly book in their middle school book fairs.
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Story Featuring Gay Parents Excluded From Us School Book FairsBooktrade.infoUS publishing giant Scholastic has insisted that it "does not censor books" in the wake of a fierce row over US children's author Lauren Myracle, .
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There’s always more to do. Reader Jersey Mom astutely pointed out in a comment (as did a reader over at Change.
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Michael Jones of Change.org is reporting that Scholastic Books has reversed their decision to exclude a book from Scholastic's popular book fairs, simply because that book featured two moms raising a child.
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During the past 48 hours more than 4,000 Change.org members joined in calling for Scholastic Books to reverse their decision to exclude a book from Scholastic's popular book fairs, simply because the book featured two moms raising a child.
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Family Equality Council reports that Scholastic has censored Lauren Myracle’s new book Luv Ya Bunches (Abrams/Amulet, 2009) do to its language and gay-friendly content.
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Most of us with young children in public school know about Scholastic Book Fairs. Many of us remember them from our own childhoods.
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Apprehensions over a lesbian couple in a children's book series has
caused publisher and elementary school book fair organizer Scholastic
to stop Lauren Myracle's latest tomes from hitting its shelves.
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Wow. As I write this, over 1900 people have signed the online petition asking Scholastic to include Lauren Myracle’s new book Luv Ya Bunches in their school Book Fairs.
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The School Library Journal is reporting that global children's publishing, education and media giant, Scholastic, decided not to include a book from its Scholastic Book Fair, because the company says one of the main characters has same-sex parents.
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I posted Friday about Scholastic’s refusal to include Lauren Myracle’s new book Luv Ya Bunches in their school Book Fairs after she refused to change one character’s lesbian moms into a mom and a dad.
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You have to wonder why an organization dedicated to getting students to read would decide to make censorship such an important part of their work.
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Scholastic has decided to censor Lauren Myracle’s new book Luv Ya Bunches (Abrams/Amulet, 2009) do to its language and homosexual content.
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