Illinois Conservative Activist: Children Should Read Books About Their Same-Sex Parents Dying

[KamaAina]

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/09/05/3563713/illinois-family-institute-parents-die/

The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) has a storied history of making extremely anti-LGBT comments, earning it a designation as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In a new blog post by IFI’s Laurie Higgins this week, the group takes on a new target: the children of same-sex couples, who Higgins expects would find “joy” in imagining their parents dead.

Higgins targets the American Library Association (ALA) and its upcoming “Banned Books Week,” a campaign to raise awareness about books that are censored or banned from libraries not because of the quality of their writing, but because of objections to the content they include. Her primary concern is that children should not ever see books about same-sex families, deeming any portrayal of a same-sex couple as “homoeroticism” and “sexual perversion.” Instead, she suggests that librarians consider adding the following kinds of books (granting the premise that such books even exist): ...

Novels about young adults who are consumed by a sense of loss and bitterness that their politically correct and foolish parents allowed them during the entirety of their childhood to cross-dress, change their names, and take medication to prevent puberty, thus deforming their bodies.

Novels about teens who suffer because of the harrowing fights and serial “marriages” of their lesbian mothers.

Herp derp.

[TlalocW]

1. Someone should write a book

About some adults, who just happen to be homosexual, who go through a lot of trials and tribulations along the lines of Lemony Snickett's A Series of Unfortunate Events, or that Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day book and see if they can get funded by this nut.

TlalocW