Children's book remains on shelves

And Tango Makes Three, a book by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell has been getting a lot of negative attention lately. The book, written with child-oriented illustrations, tells the story of two male penguins who raise an egg together. Some parents in the Chico Unified School District found this idea offensive, and tried to get the book banned. The book ended up staying on the shelves in the library, citing that "First Amendment rights apply to children as well as adults."

The fact that this book was even brought up for discussion to a banning board is ridiculous. It just goes to show how homophobic the world truly is. There are homosexual undertones to the story, but that's not the point of the story. It's actually based on two male penguins at a zoo who were actually making a nest together and sitting on an egg-shaped rock. The zookeeper ended up putting a real egg, which the two raised together in real life. The story was written to show that a family isn't about a mom and a dad, or a dad and a dad or anything like that. It's meant to show that loving and caring and nurturing is what's important in a family. Trying to ban a children's book that teaches that lesson is a horrible idea. Leave it up to parents to monitor what their children read, but don't try to ban something that teaches children a valuable lesson