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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mach2.5" data-source="post: 1132898" data-attributes="member: 12834">It may surprise many people to learn that there are social groups that attempt to ban many books. A great deal of money is invensted in 'pushing' local school legistlature to restrict books that would not normally be in the so called out of bounds catagory. Mostly, schools bar only extravagant violence and minor sexual conduct from their shelves. This list though shows dozens of books that many school boards feel inappropriate even at a high school level to have accessible to their students.Once again, you may be very surprised to know how often it does happen. More often than not, cases of this nature are laughed out of court before they make any kind of headway, but on occassion. The last case that I know of was in the early 80's and there was a listing of around 800+ books of various sorts, most dealing with occultism, how-to books on violent or deviant acts, but several of the above mentioned books also made their way onto the list. The case made its way to the state supreme court of Ohio before being thrown out for disregarding U.S. constitutional rights. Simply the fact that it passed through to the state level gave many people pause on just how prominent and influential such groups can be.Its a shame really. Especially since one of the books that was on a similar list when I was growing up was Farenheight 451, a book about the evils of banning books. The irony was just too much to bare.Think also then about some other countries where banning books is almost second nature and simply be thankful that you can at least get access to such books. What kinds of stories then may have been written, but for fear of such stigmas never got penned down? Thinking of that is the real shame, an almost intangible loss that occures any time someone attempts to import their own particular view upon a larger community.</blockquote>

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