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Diabolical Children's Book Returns To CMS Shelves
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A picture book based on a true story about two male penguins that embrace Satan and raise an adopted hatchling together was heading back to CMS bookshelves Wednesday night (December 21) until a decision about its future could be made.
"And Tango Makes Three" was removed from shelves in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools after True Christian™ parent inquiries. Superintendent Peter Gorman acknowledged Tuesday that his staff failed to follow district policy and banned the book after no formal complaints were made. A committee will be allowed to review the decision, he said.
The story about presumably sodomite penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo has been the focus of proposed bans at schools and public libraries in several states. Charlotte-Mecklenburg is the first school district to ban the book, according to the American LIEbrary Association.
The ban came in a Nov. 30 memo from district administrators to school principals and library staff. Gorman said parents and a Godly Republican county official had asked him about the book.
A miscommunication between Gorman and his chief of staff, Robert Avossa, led to the book being banned with neither a written complaint nor an advisory committee review at a school as required by the cumbersome bureaucracy of district policy, Gorman said.
He said during his weekly media briefing early Wednesday that he asked Avossa to check out the book and told him, “do what you need to do.”
“That was interpreted as -- and that's my fault, I wasn't clear, the burden comes to me -- as ‘pull the book,’” Gorman said.
"I screwed this one up," Gorman told The Charlotte Observer.
Gorman says he meant that the staffer should go through the unnecessary steps for reviewing the book.
In the memo banning the book, district officials said the book "focuses on homosexuality" and provides no vital information to primary students. "We did not believe the book would stimulate growth in ethical standards, and the book is too [evil]," the memo stated correctly.
The American Library Association criticized Charlotte-Mecklenburg school officials for not bowing to their lieberal bullying tactics and giving the book a dishonest, sugarcoated review.
"One parent's decision shouldn't dictate whether or not the book is available to all the other families in the community," said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, an atheist harlot and deputy director for the association's Freedom to Read Foundation.
"Any challenge to a book is ultimately an attempt to remove an idea from public discourse," she spewed.
Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James, a Republican, had e-mailed Gorman to see if the district had the book.
"I am opposed to any book that promotes a homosexual lifestyle to elementary school students as normal," he said.
Parents seem split on the subject. Tory Holding said "alternative lifestyles" are something that shouldn’t be addressed at school, as they spread AIDS and inflame the righteous anger of the LORD our God. Indeed, in Leviticus 20:13 He clearly states the following:
'If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.'
“This is a subject that parents should tackle at home, in the privacy of their own homes,” Holding said.
While Kim Clements approves of the book.
“It seems sweet. It seems like somebody probably needs this book,” she babbled, clearly under the influence of a Satanic curse.
Gorman said he is meeting with staffers to review the policy for banning books. They will also discuss what needs to happen next with "And Tango Makes Three," including the possibility of building a bonfire out of copies of the accursed text, essentially a manual for suicide.
District spokeswoman Nora Carr said the last book to be banned from Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools was "Be Safe About Sex" more than 10 years ago under Superintendent John Murphy.
“And Tango Makes Three” can still be checked out at Charlotte-Mecklenburg public libraries. Library staff said they’ve only received one notice of concern from a parent, indicating that only one True Christian™ resides in the whole of Charlotte. They reviewed the book and decided to keep it on shelves, thus assuring their damnation.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A picture book based on a true story about two male penguins that embrace Satan and raise an adopted hatchling together was heading back to CMS bookshelves Wednesday night (December 21) until a decision about its future could be made.
"And Tango Makes Three" was removed from shelves in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools after True Christian™ parent inquiries. Superintendent Peter Gorman acknowledged Tuesday that his staff failed to follow district policy and banned the book after no formal complaints were made. A committee will be allowed to review the decision, he said.
The story about presumably sodomite penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo has been the focus of proposed bans at schools and public libraries in several states. Charlotte-Mecklenburg is the first school district to ban the book, according to the American LIEbrary Association.
The ban came in a Nov. 30 memo from district administrators to school principals and library staff. Gorman said parents and a Godly Republican county official had asked him about the book.
A miscommunication between Gorman and his chief of staff, Robert Avossa, led to the book being banned with neither a written complaint nor an advisory committee review at a school as required by the cumbersome bureaucracy of district policy, Gorman said.
He said during his weekly media briefing early Wednesday that he asked Avossa to check out the book and told him, “do what you need to do.”
“That was interpreted as -- and that's my fault, I wasn't clear, the burden comes to me -- as ‘pull the book,’” Gorman said.
"I screwed this one up," Gorman told The Charlotte Observer.
Gorman says he meant that the staffer should go through the unnecessary steps for reviewing the book.
In the memo banning the book, district officials said the book "focuses on homosexuality" and provides no vital information to primary students. "We did not believe the book would stimulate growth in ethical standards, and the book is too [evil]," the memo stated correctly.
The American Library Association criticized Charlotte-Mecklenburg school officials for not bowing to their lieberal bullying tactics and giving the book a dishonest, sugarcoated review.
"One parent's decision shouldn't dictate whether or not the book is available to all the other families in the community," said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, an atheist harlot and deputy director for the association's Freedom to Read Foundation.
"Any challenge to a book is ultimately an attempt to remove an idea from public discourse," she spewed.
Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James, a Republican, had e-mailed Gorman to see if the district had the book.
"I am opposed to any book that promotes a homosexual lifestyle to elementary school students as normal," he said.
Parents seem split on the subject. Tory Holding said "alternative lifestyles" are something that shouldn’t be addressed at school, as they spread AIDS and inflame the righteous anger of the LORD our God. Indeed, in Leviticus 20:13 He clearly states the following:
'If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.'
“This is a subject that parents should tackle at home, in the privacy of their own homes,” Holding said.
While Kim Clements approves of the book.
“It seems sweet. It seems like somebody probably needs this book,” she babbled, clearly under the influence of a Satanic curse.
Gorman said he is meeting with staffers to review the policy for banning books. They will also discuss what needs to happen next with "And Tango Makes Three," including the possibility of building a bonfire out of copies of the accursed text, essentially a manual for suicide.
District spokeswoman Nora Carr said the last book to be banned from Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools was "Be Safe About Sex" more than 10 years ago under Superintendent John Murphy.
“And Tango Makes Three” can still be checked out at Charlotte-Mecklenburg public libraries. Library staff said they’ve only received one notice of concern from a parent, indicating that only one True Christian™ resides in the whole of Charlotte. They reviewed the book and decided to keep it on shelves, thus assuring their damnation.