Utah's Davis County School District has launched a witch hunt to find and eradicate any children's book that mentions same-sex parents, gay youth or anything even remotely resembling tolerance of the LGBT community. Details follow. 

Last week it was Erie School District in Illinois, this week it's Davis County that's earning headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Reports the Salt Lake Tribune:

The Davis County School District is now targeting books for children that portray families headed by same-sex parents and a book with the message that bullying of homosexual teenagers is wrong. In Davis County, it seems, book banning based on intolerance is alive and well.

The issue was prompted by a parent’s complaint about an acclaimed book titled In Our Mothers’ Housethat was chosen by librarians specifically because there are children in the district with two same-sex parents. Librarians, rightly, wanted to make those children feel included and also wanted to help other children understand that various types of families are all acceptable. Totally Joe, about a gay teenager who is bullied, glimpses the suffering of gay teens, who all too often take their own lives.

Now the district is on a witch hunt, asking district librarians to report other books with gay or lesbian characters.

(H/t: Joe)

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written by Bob K, June 05, 2012

Nazi Germany is alive and well in Utah!

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