Christian conservative Laurie Higgins
of the Illinois Family Institute dreams of books that show the “joy”
kids feel when their gay dads die of West Nile.
In a blog post Friday, Higgins attacked
the American Library Association's (ALA) Banned Books Week and the
“self-righteous dissembling librarians” who promote the event.
Higgins criticized the group's goal of
preventing the banning of books about LGBT headed families, or as she
put it “children or anthropomorphized animals being raised by
parents in homoerotic relationships.”
The librarians should instead be
promoting books that “challenge Leftist assumptions about the
nature and morality of homosexuality.”
She
goes on to give some examples, including young adult novels
“about teens who feel sadness and resentment about being
intentionally deprived of a mother or father,” “teens who are
damaged by the promiscuity of their 'gay' fathers who hold sexual
monogamy in disdain” and “young adults who are consumed by a
sense of loss and bitterness that their politically correct and
foolish parents allowed them during the entirety of their childhood
to cross-dress, change their names, and take medication to prevent
puberty, thus deforming their bodies.”
Will the librarians, Higgins wonders,
ask “for novels about teens who suffer because of the harrowing
fights and serial 'marriages' of their lesbian mothers” or “for
picture books that show the joy a little birdie experiences when
after the West Nile virus deaths of her two daddies, she's finally
adopted by a daddy and mommy.”
“Surely, there are some teens and
children who will identify with such stories,” she adds.
The irony, of course, is that gay and
straight couples experience divorce but a larger percentage of
heterosexual marriages end in divorce. And gays make good parents.
(Related: American
Sociological Association: Gay couples make fine parents.)