tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post3573980859465239102..comments2023-10-03T09:00:22.747-04:00Comments on INSIGHT on Freedom: Veteran Book Reviewer Protests ALA Youth Media Award for Books Advocating HomosexualityLongstreethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06712980841544338388noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9871253.post-21858785003128307772011-01-02T14:18:31.686-05:002011-01-02T14:18:31.686-05:00No wonder the South lost the war, with websites li...No wonder the South lost the war, with websites like this, is it any wonder the Union freed the slaves if only to protect them from the intolerance of ignorance (otherwise, in latter days, referred to as...You). You glorify (rightfully) in your opening about the 1st amendment and freedom of speech. Then you turn around and protest the ALA for allowing and promoting books for children about homosexuality. I am a member of the ALA and a librarian. We buy books written by people like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter as well. And we don't protest the content of these books, even though there is ample to protest about. Its because the ALA truly promotes freedom of speech and press.<br /> Diversity goes hand in hand with tolerance. This IS what the 1st amendment is all about.So what you say and what you truly believe are two different things. One is based on fairness, the other on an agenda. But more to your arrogant and misguided opinion about books on gay and lesbian life being influential on a child's sexual choice in the future.<br /> Can you tell me the exact date and time you chose to be heterosexual (if, indeed you are)? I can't. I just know that I have always preferred the ladies. I didn't sit down one day and decide, "let's see. i think I'm going to be a heterosexual".<br /> So this fiction about choice is just that. It is an orientation that comes with birth. Get your head out of your ass (and I use that term as a metaphor for the Bible)and get with reality.Because, otherwise, like the "Left Behind" series by Tim Lahaye...you and your Bronze Age ilk from the Bible Belt are going to be left behind in the modern era.Doug Taylorhttp://wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com