I don't know about you...

But I wouldn't want a guy who considers a book about a rape victim to be porn to be determining what books kids in my area should or should not read.

It's just not right.

If there's anything that I feel vehemently passionate against, it's the ignorance that so often goes hand-in-hand with book banning. Every time I hear about an instance of book banning--especially ones that are along the same vein as this one, which, admittedly, most are--it makes me sad that people close themselves off so much against the world and what really happens. Books are tools of understanding, and yet people like Professor Wesley Scroggins seem to be totally missing that point.

Though I write, I don't believe I'm the right person to go through a whole post on this. I'm too sad, and I'm afraid it would just escalate into something that I may not be proud of. :P So link time!

• Laurie Halse Anderson (author of SPEAK, the book currently in question)
• Saundra Mitchell
• Myra McEntire
• Veronica Roth
• CJ Redwine
• Harmony Beaufort

There are plenty more about the blog-o-sphere, but these are just to get you started. I have the Twibbon for the Speak Loudly movement on my Twitter, and there's the #SpeakLoudly hastag as well. Support books! And support more understanding.