The Christian Post 20 June 2014
The author, Jeffrey Miles, told The Christian Post in an emailed statement that his children’s book “tells the story of two handsome princes who go on a quest to save a princess, but fall in love with each other, get married, and live happily ever after.”
Miles, a professor at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, has been married to his husband, Patrick Lastowski, for more than five years, and they’ve been a couple for 10 years.
“I wanted young and old alike to be able to read a fairy tale story that included a gay marriage,” he said about the book. “More and more public libraries are adding the book to their collections, such as the New York Public Library, the Sacramento Public Library and the Pacific Library.”
Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for the American Family Association, a nonprofit Christian organization that supports traditional marriage, told CP on Thursday that “because of the power fairy tales, this book is a particularly pernicious form of sexually perverse propaganda.”
“The stories and the images that children store up in their minds from fairy tales have a very powerful imprinting effect on their tender young souls,” Fischer said. “And the bottom line is that no responsible library should ever include a book like this on its shelves, and no responsible school should ever use this book as a part of its curriculum.”
He continued, “The reality is that no library can stock every book that’s ever been published. So libraries choose all the time not to stock certain books. There’s nothing wrong with parents asking the library not to stock a book of this nature.”
http://www.christianpost.com/news/public-libraries-stock-gay-fairy-tale-book-that-teaches-children-gay-marriage-is-ok-121878/
