WTF (West Bend, Wisconsin, Edition)

[snurri]

Four members of a library board in West Bend, Wis., were dismissed last week for refusing to remove controversial books from the library's young adult section.

Three guesses what "controversial" means in this context.

For some reason I know a bunch of people from West Bend. None of them live there anymore. I WONDER WHY.

Comments

[ellen-denham.livejournal.com]

I imagine one could sum up their basic argument as this: if our kids don't know that homosexuality exists, they will all grow up just as straight and narrow as us! Besides, homosexuality is catching. One gay couple moves in, and there goes everybody's marriage.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I heard that if gay marriage is made legal, only gays will be able to marry!

[ellen-denham.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for a couple of lesbians to come knock at my door with a pamphlet about the exciting gay lifestyle. All I get are Jehovah's Witnesses.

[laramiepup.livejournal.com]

Oh God. Thanks for the idea!

I LOVE Jehovah's Witness art and now - oh, now I can see in my mind's eye—a picture of two black women in a pasture with a large moose and fall squash and leaves and bread and summer blossoms on the trees and snow on the mountain and a small cabin in the back with a tiny rainbow flag and a white woman with long blond hair riding a white horse in the far, far distance and big, beautiful cursive words coming out of the parting clouds: "All Suffering Will End."

I'm not sure what is inside the pamphlet yet, but it will DEFINITELY make you want to be queer.