I agree that we need to make sure kids have access to these books. I’m not sure they all need to real all of them, but if they are interested and want to read these books, they need to have that option.

It’s so funny that (here in Utah) in the 8th grade, I was reading a new book that had just been published called “The Exorcist” (this was before the film came out). And one day my teacher said, I wasn’t allowed to bring that book into class anymore, it was not considered “decent” reading material.

There is the word “masturbate” in the book “The Exorcist,” but that’s about the only “bad” word in it. And I knew what “masturbate” was long before i read that book. And I wasn’t reading the book out loud to classmates or anything, I just thought it was so lame to be told I couldn’t read it.

Kids are much smarter and more resilient than these book banners give them credit for. They can read adult themes in books without it “corrupting” them, and in fact, they need to have some knowledge of such things. The whole “banning” thing is such a political stunt, and it hurts kids the most.