As a rule, I find conservative activists embrace a rather silly agenda, but they’re particularly entertaining when they go after harmless children’s books. In the latest example, children in Savannah, Missouri, need to be shielded from allegedly-gay penguins.
A children’s book about two male penguins who raise a baby penguin has been moved to the nonfiction section of two public library branches after parents complained it had homosexual undertones.
The illustrated book, And Tango Makes Three, is based on a true story of two male penguins, named Roy and Silo, who adopted an abandoned egg at New York City’s Central Park Zoo in the late 1990s.
The book, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, was moved from the children’s section at two Rolling Hills’ Consolidated Library’s branches in Savannah and St. Joseph in northwest Missouri. Two parents had expressed concerns about the book last month.
Apparently, experts said these kinds of adoptions are fairly common in the penguin world, and the events in the book actually took place in real life. But the library director agreed to move the book so it would decrease the chance that the story would “blindside” readers.
Who could argue with such sensible thinking? Children might learn more about penguins’ social structures, which might lead them to believe unattended baby penguins would be better off with two adoptive parents than not. It’s clearly a plot by the radical homosexual penguin community to poison the minds of America’s youth.