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Even Silas Marner has been banned

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Protests against banning books in the United States stem from the first amendment and its guarantees of free speech. However, from 1990 to 2000, there were 6,000 challenges to books, mainly coming from the regional and community level. Most of the books were not actually banned, but some of them have been removed from schools. The biggest issues that brought on challenges were sexually explicit material or offensive language. Distant to those two top challenges were the promotion of Satanism or cults, the promotion of homosexuality or the promotion of a religious viewpoint.

Banned books talk sparks debate

Richard Evans Lee
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This is just like when they banned Harry Potter from schools...Now removing sexually explicit and adult language material from SCHOOL Libraries is fine, but from regular libraries...Not as fine...

Posted by: GrayedLoneFox | July 27, 2004 1:50 AM

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My thanks,
Richard

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