Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Van Pelt Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah. Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 03:48:21 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:48:21 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a20dfcbf2b465a5c97937158d7bc29fc"; logging-data="3891260"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+jvqU3vK4VBk42P+tdFBNMx63yRIXjPtg=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:IreR3jjnfHLxulwfAJWSCoE8zxI= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: mike@Mike-Laptop.localdomain (Mike-Laptop) Bytes: 1685 In article , Scott Lurndal wrote: >ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) writes: >>Once again: BS. >> >>Utah has decided those books are inappropriate for state funded >>pre-college school libraries. > >What right does any state have to do that? Do you want grammar school libraries to stock The Turner Diaries, or other racist literature? I sure don't. And there's the factor of "them that pays the money makes the rules about what they'll spend it on." -- Mike Van Pelt | "I don't advise it unless you're nuts." mvp at calweb.com | -- Ray Wilkinson, after riding out Hurricane KE6BVH | Ike on Surfside Beach in Galveston