Book Burning Religious Zealots
The dystopian future of burning books envisioned in Ray Bradbury's classic Fahrenheit 451 is trying to be realized in West Bend, Wisconsin.
A group of Wisconsin Christians filed a lawsuit seeking the right to burn a gay teen novel. The group claimed the novel is "explicitly vulgar, and anti-Christian". The novel in question is Francesca Lia Block's Baby Be-Bop, a young adult novel in which a boy, struggling with his homosexuality, is beaten up by a homophobic gang.
Salon.com report HERE
A group of Wisconsin Christians filed a lawsuit seeking the right to burn a gay teen novel. The group claimed the novel is "explicitly vulgar, and anti-Christian". The novel in question is Francesca Lia Block's Baby Be-Bop, a young adult novel in which a boy, struggling with his homosexuality, is beaten up by a homophobic gang.
Salon.com report HERE
Labels: baby be-bop, fahrenheit 451, francesca lia block, ray bradbury
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