Massachusetts News Staff

January 5--The schools of Massachusetts are not the only ones who are encouraging sexual activity by teenagers. 

The 34 libraries of the Minuteman Library Network in the Metrowest area of Boston continue to recommend a site which is run by pedophiles and advocates sexual activity to teenagers. It is the first one on their recommended list. Although the Network was very reluctant to do so, they recently stopped recommending a similar site, but only after many people were alerted by this newspaper. 

They apparently believe that this somehow involves Freedom of Speech. However, experts say this is analogous to taking the twenty "best" books in the library and putting them in a special case at the front door and recommending them to patrons. If the librarians later put one of the books back on the shelf in the stacks where it belongs, no one would say that involved Freedom of Speech. The book would still be there in the library where anyone could read it. It was just not on the "recommended" list anymore. This would be equivalent to removing a website from the list of recommended sites. Many wonder whether this is too difficult a concept for librarians to fathom.

The site in question, "Coalition for Positive Sexuality," begins with the slogan, "Just Say Yes." It continues, "You have the right to make your own choices, and to have people respect them." The word "people" in that sentence obviously means "parents." 

The site states that the public schools in Chicago, where it originates, do not like it at all and oppose it whenever possible. Yet the libraries in Massachusetts recommend it to our teenagers. It can be found online.
 

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