{"id":6915,"date":"2011-09-05T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=6915"},"modified":"2011-09-03T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T12:00:24","slug":"outraged-parents-protest-gay-rape-orgy-books-on-high-school-middle-school-required-reading-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/09\/outraged-parents-protest-gay-rape-orgy-books-on-high-school-middle-school-required-reading-lists","title":{"rendered":"Outraged parents get gay rape, orgy books removed from student &#8220;required reading&#8221; lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two books, one containing an explicit depiction of statutory lesbian rape, and the other a homosexual orgy, have been\u00a0removed from local schools&#8217; required reading lists\u00a0by outraged New Jersey parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The texts, <em>Norwegian Wood<\/em> and <em>Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines,<\/em> originally appeared on the summer reading list for both middle school and high school students at Monroe Township schools this year,&#8221; reports Kathleen Gilbert for LifeSiteNews.<\/p>\n<p><em>Norwegian Wood,<\/em> a novel by Haruki Murakami, includes a graphic depiction of a 31-year-old woman raping a 13-year-old girl, while <em>Tweak,<\/em> a story about addiction, describes a homosexual orgy scene as well as the details of drug use.<\/p>\n<p>The books, school officials say, were included on the list by a group of teachers, librarians, and administrators, and approved by the board of education, writes Gilbert.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/?p=2503\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two books, one containing an explicit depiction of statutory lesbian rape, and the other a homosexual orgy, have been\u00a0removed from local schools&#8217; required reading lists\u00a0by outraged New Jersey parents. &#8220;The texts, Norwegian Wood and Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines, originally appeared on the summer reading list for both middle school and high school students at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2201],"class_list":["post-6915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Outraged parents get gay rape, orgy books removed from student &quot;required reading&quot; 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