Citizen for Community Values is one of those busybody organizations that wants to make sure you're not allowed to think salacious thoughts in the privacy of your home and, if you do, you won't have any support in doing so. They're latest press release is a giggle and a half: They want schools across the country to ban Banned Books Week.

"What people need to understand is that this is the American Library Association's way of trying to censor those who exercise their free speech rights and say that there are books in the library that should not be available to children." Of course, the American Library Association doesn't have the power to censor since it's not a governmental institution. Neither is the CCV, thank the gods. One wants to put books on the shelves; the other wants them removed. Which one stands with the censors now?

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