The homosexual agenda? It's literacy
Alabama State Representative Gerald Allen says homosexuality is an unacceptable lifestyle and his proposed legislation would ban public school libraries from buying new copies of plays or books by gay authors, or about gay characters.
The
news report reads: "Allen originally wanted to ban even some Shakespeare. After criticism, he narrowed his bill to exempt the classics, although he still can't define what a classic is."
Allen is quoted as saying: "I don't look at it as censorship. I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children."
The story continues: "Books by any gay author would have to go: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal. Alice Walker's novel 'The Color Purple' has lesbian characters....
"[I]n book after book, Allen reads what he calls the 'homosexual agenda,' and he's alarmed. 'It's not healthy for America, it doesn't fit what we stand for,'" says Allen. "'And they will do whatever it takes to reach their goal.'"