Utah School District Sued for Yanking Book About Lesbian Parents
What? Is it 1950 again?
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Utah filed a lawsuit against the Davis School District after elementary schools in the district were instructed to remove a children's book about a family with same-sex parents from library shelves.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a mother whose children attend one of the schools where the book was restricted.
In Our Mothers' House, by acclaimed children's author Patricia Polacco, was initially placed in the Easy Reading section of Windridge Elementary School in Davis County. After a group of parents complained that the book "normalizes a lifestyle we don't agree with," the school district instructed librarians to place the book behind the library counter and to lend it only with written permission from a parent.