DU: Should libraries be banned from stocking ex-gay/"restorative" therapy books?

[Lord Undies]

BolivarianHero (252 posts)        Fri Jul-03-09 10:14 AM
Original message
Should libraries be banned from stocking ex-gay/"restorative" therapy books?
   
Would refusing to do so qualify as censorship and the suppression of a legitimate opinion or is it akin to not lending out books with a White supremacist message?

Obvious mole material poorly executed.

.....followed by the "saintly" refusals to ban any books....

......and then this gem:

surrealAmerican (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-03-09 11:02 AM
Response to Original message
28. You're not going to find much support for book banning here.
   Free speech is important to us. It's useful to have access to "literature" that is vapid propaganda too. It's helpful to understand the opposition.

Posted on a website where "free speech" can get you banned in a heartbeat.  Do these Little Goons even read their own drivel?

......and here's a funny:

MineralMan  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jul-03-09 10:25 AM
Response to Original message
11. No book-banning...
   That's a winger thing.

So DU is a "winger" site now?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5978005

[jukin]

The squashing of freedom is what the left does and does it violently.

These are the same DUchebags that want any conservative author's books banned.

[USA4ME]

lunatica

18. Libraries should have a 'quaint and refuted literature' section for books that are found to be factually challenged and/or proven to be scientifically and socially erroneous.

Betty
 
22. put it next to Mein Kampf

it can be useful to read about epic failures of the past and present.

According to the primitives, no practicing homosexual has ever used materials and/or sought therapy in order to give up being homosexual.

.

[Lord Undies]

According to the primitives, no practicing homosexual has ever used materials and/or sought therapy in order to give up being homosexual.

.

While being professed defenders of the "live and let live" motto, the Little Goons make exceptions for moral homosexuals.

[GOBUCKS]

This mole would have had a lot more fun with his question had he asked it prior to the recent Fag War.
The most militant queers having been banned, there's no one left at the DUmp to be outraged at the idea they might be cured.

[AllosaursRus]

Oh heavens no! No one has ever given up the gayness thru therapy or christian counseling!

[DULurkster]

Should libraries be banned from stocking ex-gay/"restorative" therapy books?

Oops, your "authoritarian streak" is showing.