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Christian Group to Burn Children's Book at the Stake

These folks have a lot to learn about civil liberties, not to mention a lot about Christianity, too.

A so-called "Christian" group in Wisconsin has some hot plans for a book in a local library.

A few days ago, she found out that it might be burned at the stake. "Baby Be-Bop" is on a list of titles that a local group calling itself the West Bend Citizens for Safe Libraries objects to seeing in the public library. In February, the group asked the library's board to remove a page of recommended titles about gay and lesbian issues for young people (including "Baby Be-Bop") from the library's Web site. Then they demanded that the books be moved from the youth section of the library and placed with the adult collection, "to protect children from accessing them without their parents' knowledge and supervision."