Crowe said in the May 20 News Orleans Times-Picayune that he initiated the resolution after a constituent shared his concerns about his 4-year-old daughter borrowing King and King from the St. Tammany Parish Library branch in Slidell. “I am not espousing censorship,” Crowe asserted, adding that “there should be a way [to] keep children from picking out these types of books.” The complainant, Dan Danese, declined to file a request for reconsideration, telling the Times-Picayune, “I’m deciding to skip the whole useless step” and turn to lawmakers “to see if they will cooperate with the people’s will.”
An Oklahoma lawmaker filed a similarly worded resolution May 11, several weeks after the Alabama legislature let a bill die that would have banned “printed or electronic materials or activities that sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of the state.”
Posted May 20, 2005.