Monday, May 02, 2005

Not far from the Best Lil Whorehouse....there is trouble brewing in Montgomery County!

Amazing. I just got an email blasting the County Commissioner and Library Director for their inclusion of books in the library on GLBT issues, and other sexual related materials in their library. The Commissioner and Library Director are trying to avoid censorship in the Montgomery County library. The citizens in a uproar are purporting it that it is adding/aiding a deviancy to the children and teens of the county.

Honestly, when I lived in Montgomery County and visited the library, I didn't see the blatant violations of this that they were arguing over. However, maybe the appropriate solution would be like they do in video stores and place questionable material in a separate room to view for renting/purchase.

However, if you do that then children and teens who are questioning their own sexual preferences and/or identity may have no where to turn -- especially, if they are unable to discuss things of such nature with their own parents. Of course, they could turn to the internet to be informed; however, how safe is that in getting proper information to them for them to form their own opinions of their sexuality?????

Where do you think that the line should be drawn? If you were a teen, would you be more apt to learn from some library books? And, to what length is the director responsible for dispelling proper information and censor out the materials that are stranger than fiction???

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