Letter: Representing society's values

Published: Sunday, Jan. 20 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

Book cover for "In Our Mothers' House" by Patricia Polacco

Peter Samore

Tina Weber was pleased with the Davis School District's quick reversal on removing "In Our Mothers' House" from the elementary school libraries in response to a lawsuit by the ACLU ("Same-sex parents book back on shelf," Jan. 15).

She is quoted as saying "a small group of people shouldn't be able to impose their personal values on everyone else by taking away access to books they might disagree with."

Which is the smaller group imposing their personal values on the rest: parents who want books about same-gender parenting in elementary school libraries, or parents who would rather not have books about same-gender parenting in elementary school libraries?

Larry Tippetts

Sandy

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Blue

Salt Lake City, UT

Mr. Tippets, using your same reasoning a school district in Texas could purge books about Mormon families from their libraries.

5:41 a.m. Jan. 20, 2013
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Maudine

SLC, UT

Considering that recent polls indicate 53% of Americans approve of same-sex marriage and an additional percentage support civil unions, my guess would be that the greater majority supports inclusive books.

9:27 a.m. Jan. 20, 2013
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Emajor

Ogden, UT

Larry, you're making the argument that guaranteeing access to a minority viewpoint is somehow morally inferior to banning a dissenting viewpoint. That's a dangerous argument to make.

I guess parents who want their children to be More..

10:10 a.m. Jan. 20, 2013
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