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(Pleasant Valley, Iowa) Pleasant Valley, Iowa is a little less pleasant today for gay and lesbian parents and their children.
The local school board has told teachers they may not read to their classes a book with a gay character.
The 4-3 vote, however, allows the book, The Misfits, to be kept in school libraries, but out of the hands of small children.
"I'm really disappointed with the outcome," said teacher Linda Goetz, who read the book to her sixth-grade students at Bridgeview Elementary for two years in an effort to curb name-calling. "I don't think any board should take away the right of a teacher to read a book to students."
The Misfits is about four 12 year olds, best friends and the target of cruel name-calling who decide they aren't going to take it anymore.
The board's action followed a complaint from parent Jim Nitzchke. The meeting was packed with about 150 people. Nitzschke said if sexual orientation
is part of the curriculum, then the Bible and Ten Commandments should be read aloud, too.
"This question is of a religious nature and a deeply personal matter," he said. He said the gay movement has an aggressive agenda "to indoctrinate children".
He then presented the board with a petition signed by 186 people asking the use of the book be restricted, and he urged the board to leave the decisions of sensitive moral issues for the home.
Last month a dispute erupted in another Iowa community over the gay themed book Am I Blue.
In that case, the Solon Board of Education refused to remove it.
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