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
Labels: baby be-bop, fahrenheit 451, francesca lia block, ray bradbury

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