Read the Express-News letters to the editor for April 2.
Book banning is a slippery slope quickly leading to the infringement of freedom of thought and speech. The supposed purpose is to protect our youth from exposure to lewdness and violence. If adopted and taken to its natural conclusion, it would mean the Bible and Quran would have to go, along with all the romance novels, war novels and most adventure stories.
These are the same youths that rarely want a hardbound book anyway but prefer a virtual or audio version, which I am sure will give them access to every physical book that is banned at the library anyway.I read with dismay how librarians in Texas are being treated. And then I thought of what I had read, that someone was worried about Texas turning into California. Really? At first I worried that Texas was becoming too much like Florida.
Imagine the shock opening a book and seeing Michelangelo’s David, or worse, Michelangelo’s Adam. How dare we expose our children to paintings of Paul Ruben’s nude women. Time to remove the impeccable works of the great masters of art.Another school shooting with the loss of young innocent lives. The Declaration of Independence states our “unalienable rights” to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The Second Amendment states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”I believe unalienable rights came before the right of a person to own any gun, but more to the point, an assault weapon.
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