NO BOOK BAN IN BARTLESVILLE Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	Name	Comments
201	Katie Lambing
202	Mary Severson
203	jazmyn douillard	It is terrible to think that in this day and age there are still bannings on teen novels. On any book for that matter! The Bermudez Triangle is a wonderful teen novel about friendship, choices, and the struggles that a surprising number of todays youth go through.
204	Angela R. G.	Please do not ban books based on sexual preference. That is discrimination.
205	Morgan M. Madding	DON'T FRICKIN BAN BOOKS!
206	Sabelle L. M.	Banning books is a sign of less than average intelligence.
207	Raelyn Riley	I realise that for some people homosexuality is against their religious beliefs, but guess what? Pretty much the #1 of any religion is to TREAT OTHER PEOPLE HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED. As in tolerance. To ban this book would be a demonstration on homophobia, which I find uttlerly disgusting. Also, readers deserve better than to have their book choices dictated by someone other than themselves. Keep the book on the shelf.
208	Gwenda Bond	Stop embarrassing your town.
209	Anonymous
210	Maryrose Wood	Banning books violates the First Amendment rights of students. That's what the law says. While individual parents may wish to impart their own values and opinions to their adolescent children, no parent may dictate their personal belief system to the student body at large. Gay students in particular, who are at increased risk for harrassment, suicide and depression, must be protected from attempts to silence, shame, or "ban" their existence from even fictional representation on the school library shelves.
211	Joanne Leonard
212	Anonymous	Stop this outrageishness!!!! If you want to ban a book at least read the book before hane before you go and try to ban it.
213	Anonymous	Stop this outrageishness!!!! If you want to ban a book at least read the book before hane before you go and try to ban it.
214	Anonymous	Stop this outrageishness!!!! If you want to ban a book at least read the book before hane before you go and try to ban it.
215	Mindy Hutchings	I believe that no book should be banned. Yes, "appropriate age-level material" should be chosen for school libraries, but this should be left up to the discretion of librarians who are professional readers and book enthusiasts. Yes, there can be discussion about a book's social and literary merit, and yes, a parent has the right to restrict a child's access to written material. However, with that said, it would be better to monitor a child's reading. By that I mean let a child read whatever he/she wants but the parents should discuss material they feel is controversial, uncomfortable, "immoral", "unethical", or otherwise against the parent's beliefs. Furthermore, NO discussion can EVER take place if the book in question has not been read by all parties involved!
216	Ysabeau S. Wilce	Please allow parents and students to decide individually what to read. When an individual asks for a book to be removed from a library, that person is trying to control everyone's choices. No one person has the right to force his or her beliefs upon others. Please do not allow the few to dictate the choices of the many.
217	Stephanie N.	To ban a book based upon "homosexual" behavior is completely and utterly a form of prejudicism. This inequality is a disgrace; attempting to remove a book from a public institution because of the sexual orientation of the main characters is uncalled for. The individuals who are attempting to ban this piece of literature have not even read the book. If they did, why are they convinced that the book is filled with "sex" related material? The Burmudez Triangle contains no such subject. Perhaps it would be wise to read a book before one is to place any sort of judgement upon it. This banning also goes again the U.S. Constitution. The freedom of speech is guaranteed in the First Amendmen of this legislation; "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. " A voice is being silenced here, and it is going against everything America stands for.
218	Jordan Sonnenblick
219	Elise	This book should not be banned, and doing so is morally corrupt, unconstitutional, and really dumb because it's a very good book
220	Deborah Davis	Please respect the laws of this country, which do not allow censorship, and allow individual parents to decide which books their children may or may not read.
221	Tiffany Taber
222	Jasmine Moorer
223	Anonymous
224	Anonymous
225	Elaine Anderson	There are very few reasons to remove any book from any school shelves at any time and in the case of The Bermudez Triangle, there can't possibly be a justifiable reason.
226	Dorothy Cronin
227	Ellen Datlow
228	Anonymous
229	Timothy Rezendes
230	Andrea Perez
231	Kelsey W.
232	Terri Trimble
233	Kathryne B. Alfred
234	Jocelyn Pearce
235	Tom Stohlman	I respect the right of the citizens of Bartlesville to discuss this issue. I also think banning The Bermudez Triangle is a terrible idea. The inclusion of books on a library shelf is different than exclusion. Better to let it be read and discussed in school, within families, and around town, than to let government decide what you can and cannot read. Its message will rise or fall on its own merits, as will the message the town will send with a book banning. Respectfully, Tom Stohlman
236	Emily Huscher	This book ban is unreasonable and should not be enforced in any of Bartlesville's high schools.
237	Cara Zajac	Go Maureen!
238	Cinthya Rodriguez
239	Faith Coben	The Bermudez Triangle is not a dangerous book. The moral is certainly not to "sleep with a bunch of people to find out who you are." How could it be, when there isn't even any sex in it? The book's moral is that friendships can survive after romantic relationships if you care enough to work at them. The fact that one of the girls is homosexual is almost besides the point.
240	michelle burton
241	Melissa	I think all book-bannings should be illegal. We live ina country built on democratic beliefs. If you don't want your child reading an innappropriate book, that is your decision but you have no right to parent other people's children.
242	Molly Karna
243	Kristen Tracy
244	Nicolette
245	Kelly Vikstrom	This is a book that is well worth reading, and entirely appropriate to a teen audience.
246	Tirzah Price	Regardless of content, no book should ever be banned, and Maureen Johnson's book certainly doesn't deserve this treatment.
247	Megan McDermott	Clearly, banning this book is wrong, especially since some of the people wanting to ban it haven't even read it. If a parent doesn't want their kid reading THE BERMUDEZ TRIANGE, that's their right, but don't take the book away from others.
248	Eloise Flood
249	Alisha Bisaillon	Just because the book is in the library doesn't mean people have to read it. If you don't like to read books with homosexual relationships in them, THEN JUST DON'T READ THE BOOK!!!!! Let other people have the chance to read it even if you don' t care for it.
250	Sridarajandevi Lu	The book does not do harm to anyone if used "properly" and might infact educate people for the better.