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20 September 2010
This week in censorship: YA author Laurie Halse Anderson speaks out against a United Methodist minister in Missouri who called her book SPEAK "soft pornography" because its main character is sexually assaulted at a high school party. He already got SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE taken out of the curriculum, if you need additional steam.
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Because if we don't discuss problems, then they don't exist?
Exactly. Halse Anderson's challenged books tackle topics like rape, depression and eating disorders, and we ALL KNOW that those things would never happen to teenagers unless they read about them in books. That's where they get the ideas!
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