Dad Wants $20K, Says Lesbian Book Disturbed Teens — this is the kind of crap public librarians have to deal with. Things I don’t quite get:

* Why kind of library board bans/removes a book on lesbianism? Because two teenage boys thought it was “disturbing” (read: arousing and dad caught us.) Oh yeah, they’re in Arkansas.
* There’s no way the director is getting fired over this, but I think one family might not be invited back to that library.
* Of course, the Urbana Free Library has a copy. On shelf. I might have to check that out… you know, for research. (It’s research, it’s research…)
* You don’t run across lesbian sex books looking for books on military academies. UFL has the book at 613.96 and miltary academies are in the 355s. For as large as a library as I expect Bensonville, AK has, that’s at least a few shelves apart. (I’m totally ignoring the fact lesbian sex books are under science and technology. Honestly, I would expect it could be classified in the social science … closer to the military academies. Still, serendipity or not, you don’t just, oops, stumble on sex books.)
* The boys are suing because they’ve been having problems sleeping at night. A 14 and 16 year old male find a sex book in the library and now they can’t sleep. I wonder what they’re doing instead of sleeping? Praying, yes, must be praying.

How again is this the library’s problem? And what happens when these kids grow up — there are much scarier things out there than scissoring (thank you South Park.) Seriously, who comes up with this stuff? The money-line from the article: “God was speaking to my heart that day and helped me find the words that proved successful in removing this book from the shelf.” I think God was speaking, but he wasn’t listening.