'Morally toxic' Scholastic books is the latest target of the religious right

[Leith]

7. They Are So Full of Shit

My favorite part of school was when we got the little catalogs of books we could buy. Some of the books required a parent or guardian to sign a permission slip to get. Is today's social climate so much more lackadaisical than it was 45 years ago? I doubt it.

I always credit my mother for signing the permission slip without even bothering to see what I wanted to order, pay for out of my own allowance, and read. I even asked her once, when I wanted to get The Bell Jar, if she wanted to see which books I wanted. She quickly said "nope." Now that I'm an adult with much the same attitude, I realize that the books made available to junior high schoolers are already verified by professionals who know what pre-teens and young teenagers can handle.

If it's moral toxicity they want, they should check out their own precious bible. It's full of rape, incest, genocide, bears tearing children apart, and even a mysterious naked and unnamed young man who ran away when the Roman soldiers came to arrest Jesus.