Saturday, March 04, 2006
the growing problem of gay penguins
Parents are complaining about the undertones of this book:
I'm not clear on how moving the title from fiction to non-fiction resolved the objections to the book.
A children's book about two male penguins that raise a baby penguin has been moved to the nonfiction section of two public library branches after parents complained it had homosexual undertones.
The illustrated book, "And Tango Makes Three," is based on a true story of two male penguins, named Roy and Silo, who adopted an abandoned egg at New York City's Central Park Zoo in the late 1990s.
I'm not clear on how moving the title from fiction to non-fiction resolved the objections to the book.
