lsands
12th March 2005, 04:39 PM
I am asking myself more and more lately, Why the **** do I live in Utah County?!!! I am including here an article from the weekly, free, alternative newspaper City Weekly.
"...In the bigotry department, Provo library director Gene Nelson removed City Weekly from the library a couple of months ago, according to The Salt Lake Tribune, because of “the paper’s proximity to impressionable children using nearby restrooms.” It’s not clear whether restroom use is somehow related to the reading of City Weekly, but it’s a known fact that children, impressionable or otherwise, like to lock themselves into home bathrooms with a juicy edition of the paper and perform Lord knows what unspeakable acts, with or without the paper....
"Library director Gene Nelson inadvertently reveals the basis of his own bigotry when he claims that he is not acting as a censor. After all, he argues, he provides adult access to such subversive works as Mein Kampf, Sunstone and Dialogue. Sunstone and Dialogue, for the uninitiated, are journals that discuss Mormonism in a mild and harmless manner. But to the general authorities, these magazines engage in vicious Mormon-bashing, an accusation routinely flung at anyone or anything that does not take the church at its own estimate.
"That librarian Nelson lumps those two publications with Hitler gives you some idea of his moral acuity. The totalitarian mentality, whether of the Nazi or religious variety, fears the free expression of ideas. It’s not impressionable children they are afraid of subjecting to injury, but their own fragile faith and unexamined prejudices.
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/deep_2005-03-10.cfm
After a few months of debate, City Weekly is once again available in the library. But this gives you some idea of the local mindset! :Crazy:
Laraine
"...In the bigotry department, Provo library director Gene Nelson removed City Weekly from the library a couple of months ago, according to The Salt Lake Tribune, because of “the paper’s proximity to impressionable children using nearby restrooms.” It’s not clear whether restroom use is somehow related to the reading of City Weekly, but it’s a known fact that children, impressionable or otherwise, like to lock themselves into home bathrooms with a juicy edition of the paper and perform Lord knows what unspeakable acts, with or without the paper....
"Library director Gene Nelson inadvertently reveals the basis of his own bigotry when he claims that he is not acting as a censor. After all, he argues, he provides adult access to such subversive works as Mein Kampf, Sunstone and Dialogue. Sunstone and Dialogue, for the uninitiated, are journals that discuss Mormonism in a mild and harmless manner. But to the general authorities, these magazines engage in vicious Mormon-bashing, an accusation routinely flung at anyone or anything that does not take the church at its own estimate.
"That librarian Nelson lumps those two publications with Hitler gives you some idea of his moral acuity. The totalitarian mentality, whether of the Nazi or religious variety, fears the free expression of ideas. It’s not impressionable children they are afraid of subjecting to injury, but their own fragile faith and unexamined prejudices.
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/deep_2005-03-10.cfm
After a few months of debate, City Weekly is once again available in the library. But this gives you some idea of the local mindset! :Crazy:
Laraine