Brokeback March of the Penguins

I don't want to seem anti-American but these 'red-state' folks are just too scary for words. I really don't know what is worse - that two homophobic people can convince a public library to remove a book from the children's section to the far off nether regions of the 'non-fiction' area or that the book might secretly, insidiously, devilishly "blindside" a reader.

How will all the gay penguins explain this to their offspring?

Penguin book moved from children's section
Parents complained about story depicting two male birds raising baby

March 4, 2006
SAVANNAH, Mo. - A children's book about two male penguins that raise a baby penguin has been moved to the nonfiction section of two public library branches after parents complained it had homosexual undertones.

The illustrated book, "And Tango Makes Three," is based on a true story of two male penguins, named Roy and Silo, who adopted an abandoned egg at New York City's Central Park Zoo in the late 1990s.

The book, written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, was moved from the children's section at two Rolling Hills Consolidated Library's branches in Savannah and St. Joseph in northwest Missouri.

Two parents had expressed concerns about the book last month.

Barbara Read, the Rolling Hills' director, said experts report that adoptions aren't unusual in the penguin world. However, moving the book to the nonfiction section would decrease the chance that it would 'blindside' readers, she said.

The Associated Press.