What I mean when I say censorship is ridiculous is exactly that. In Censorship Opposing Viewpoints, it states that the American Heritage Dictionary was banned from Anchorage, Alaska because of words dubbed obscene, like bed, tail, ball, and nut. At first we laugh at it, but we stop when we hear it has also been banned in Cedar City, Indiana, and Eldon, Missouri. % other dictionaries were banned in Texas. These people that ban them call themselves People for Better Education. I thought dictionaries help you learn? An article in Scholastic Update entitled "The Case of the disappearing Books" it says last year there were 338 cases of parents trying to remove books, among these was the classic Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. A teacher was fired because she assigned a book with a lesbian as a main characte

The second aspect that censorship is unfair and selfish deals with our rights and the First Amendment. A quote from Nat Hentoff in " The Case of the disappearing books, " says, " The First Amendment doesn't just give you the right to express ideas, there's also a right to receive them." We have the right to read any book we want and educate ourselves, the library plays a big part in this. Guess what, we also have the right to choice and we can choose not to read something if we don't like the content, that doesn't mean we have to force others not to read it. In Publishers Weekly an article, "School Board Bans Acclaimed Gang-Life Memoir" the Rockford, Illinois school district banned the book Always Running: A Memoir of LA Vida Loca, Gang Life in L.A. Kids from elsewhere poured in letters thanking for the book. This is not fair to the students in Rockford. The book just portray life, and people have to learn to deal with what goes on in the world. The Religious Right seems to be forcing their beliefs on us, and we also have freedom of Religion. The Religious Right is trying to take over the libraries locally. The libraries would then be "family friendly" with parental advisory sections because they feel it is no longer safe for a little kid to walk through a library. This is according to Karen Jo Gounaud in an article from the Education Digest, "The Religious Right Hits Libraries." The Religious Right doesn't agree with ALA's Bill of Rights which is totally anticensors

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