Having made its regrettable mark on science, the Kansas State Board of Education may be ready to tamper with literature. Chairman Steve Abrams last week asked board attorney Dan Biles to advise the board, perhaps as early as next month, about statutes governing obscenity in Kansas schools. Abrams is on the same kick as last fall, when he claimed that “superintendents and local school boards in some districts continue to promulgate pornography as ‘literature’” — apparently referring to a controversy in Johnson County’s Blue Valley school district over books including Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” (what — no “Fahrenheit 451”?). If this is a real problem, it should be the concern of local school boards, not the state board.
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I agree we need to ban porn and we should start with the Bible.
Steve I hope you know you need to start packing the office up. As one of those that live in the district you represent. You have blown it, gone…gone.. wave bye bye Steve. Next election you are gone.
Let the book burning begin.
They should definitly include “Hamlet.”
Consider this exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia during the viewing of the play within a play–
Ham. “Lady, shall I lie in your lap?” Oph. “No my lord” H. “I mean my head upon your lap.” O. “Aye, my lord.” H. “Do you think I meant COUNTry matters?” O. “I think nothing my lord.” H. “That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs.” O. “What is, my lord?” H. “No-thing.” With a pun on a man’s “thing.”
You can see that this is nothing short of pornographic and Hamlet should be off limits to all high school students.
And if the school board does it, then all the kids will WANT to read it.
Where are all those “libertarians” (conservatives masquerading as libertarians because it sounds less stupid) now that the school board wants to use the big thumb of government to squash basic rights?
It’s gotten very quiet from that side of the gallery . . .
This continuing BoE insanity has nothing to do with conservative, “Proud Liberal”. You have your labels mixed up. These are rabid Christian zealots..the same ones who pushed thru ID.
But, labelling is much easier than thinking, isn’t it? You stick a label on someone and have branded them (in your closed little mind) for life.
Let’s just skip the foreplay of book burning, and start with the main entree of genocide…
“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”Heinrich Heine 1823
Ray, relax, drink a beer.
I’m glad to hear that some on your side don’t like this crap either.
Nevertheless, these people do vote for Tiahrt and Bush every election, don’t they?
And Tiahrt and Bush give them what they want, apparently.
I am against book burning but genocide is okay, depending on who is being genocided.
V.L.R.B!!
HEEYAH!!!!!! YOU’RE DEFINITELY MY KINDA GUY IAN!
Dub–we don’t respond to Ian anymore. Even to make fun of him.
Sorry Ray,
I don’t blame you for not wanting to think that there is a rapidly insane ideology working in the Kansas Republican party.
This is a quote from the Kansas Republican Assembly website:”As you all know, we have a tremendous job ahead of us in 2006. Liberals are working already to recruit precinct committeemen and women in an effort to wrest control of the party from conservatives.”
These “liberals” they’re labeling here are fellow republicans whom they call RINOs. Further down on the page is the famous rant by Steve Abrams where he made the accusation that literature in high school is pornography.
Sorry, but Connie and Steve are not a couple of nuts, well, I stand corrected, they are; But, Connie and Steve get significant money from this organization. And they are a significant part of the Kansas Republican landscape.
You might want to check them out:
http://www.ks-ra.org/
As they call themselves they are “the conscience of the Republican party” If these folks are your conscience, things don’t look too good for you guys.
WELL PL, YOU MIGHT MAKE FUN OF HIM BUT ME AND KARL ADMIRE HIM! SO DOES DICK!