The Somewhat Ambitious

While we’re on the topic of Christians and their insatiable love for literature, here’s a heartwarming story about JoAn [sic] Karkos of Lewiston, Maine, a septugenarian and tireless defender of the civilised world’s moral fibre. Now I don’t like to fling around the phrase ‘political prisoner’ or ‘hero’ too freely, but JoAn [sic] may well be the greatest American crusader since Rosa Parks. You see, Mrs Karkos is facing JAIL because in September last year she loaned copies of the book ‘It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health’ from two libraries in her area and then refused to return them on the grounds that they were “sexually graphic, amoral [and] abnormal”. Why a grandmother was reading books on puberty in the first place is anyone’s guess, but one can only presume that life becomes very confusing when one reaches older age. You know, growing shorter, no hair where there was hair before, excess skin. It’s a difficult time. She was probably looking for ‘It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Old, Knitting and Knitting Patterns’, but really the covers are almost exactly the same.

It was hard to find a good picture of JoAn [sic] Karkos, Defender of Virtue, so instead I’ve used a picture of nuns with guns. I think the metaphor is adequate.

[via Boing Boing]

/Luke