From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake (Not!)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:17:04 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 3:34 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake (Not!)

> Well, I generally view parents being protective of their children
> including their children's reading as a positive exercise of parental
> responsibility.  However, others see a reasonable protective concern as a
> wholesale assault on the First Amendment, and I believe that we can
address
> reasonable concerns without labeling those people 'loons.'

People who are "protective" of their child's reading are usually those who
wish to instill a narrow worldview in that child.  They are innately
suspicious of books -- of all sorts.   They believe in sheltering children
from life.  Every child should rebell against such parents by reading as
widely and voraciously as he or she can.

--Ted White