I got yer happy feet right here

Hee hee hee...I love this story.  Some parents in an Illinois school district are trying to have a book called "And Tango Makes Three" removed from the school library.  This is a children's book that tells the (apparently true) story of two male penguins in a New York zoo who take in an abandoned egg  and raise the chick as their own. 

Complaining about the book's homosexual undertones, some parents of Shiloh Elementary School students believe the book — available to be checked out of the school's library in this 11,000-resident town 20 miles east of St. Louis — tackles topics their children aren't ready to handle.

Their request: Move the book to the library's regular shelves and restrict it to a section for mature issues, perhaps even requiring parental permission before a child can check it out.

The bigots are agog at the notion that these two sodomites are spreading their Gay Penguin Agenda to their impressionable youngsters.  What are they thinking?  We all *know* homosexuality just isn't natural.  Didn't they get the memo that the task of raising families is between one male penguin and one female penguin, because we said it was? 

I read a thought last week (I've forgotten where) by someone wondering what the conservatives do "if God loses?"  He or she was talking in particular about the war in Iraq, which was hailed as divine will by many Christian Right ministers.  I'd like to explore that question myself in more detail sometime, but for now, suffice to say, what happens when they're faced with the sour prospect of humiliation is to move it to the section for "mature issues."  The better to keep the youngsters in the fold for a bit longer, at least.