Controversial Group Chat

My group for the Controversial Issue Project includes Tina, Shea, Tiffany and myself. We were able to meet today to talk about our topic that we chose on the first night of class. Our topic is going to be religious issues. Tina came to the group with a lot of great ideas for the project. She had already spoken to the librarian at her school and she came with various book titles that may cause religious controversy in a school library. She made the point that we may not personally like the message these books send to our children about certain religions, but we have to keep an open-mind about keeping certain books in the library.
Some of the book titles that were brought up were, "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The Golden Compass", "Big Momma Makes The World", "Bridge To Terabithia", and "Hey God, It's Me Again, Margaret". We also talked about if a school library contains the Holy Bible, then it would need to also contain the Torah, the book of morons, or the Koran, plus many more. We mentioned that school libraries would need to contain books about all multicultural areas and the way they celebrate their own holidays.
Shea mentioned that no matter what kind of books a library has, someone will always get offended with religious issues and it is a touchy subject for some parents. We all felt that religious issues is probably more of a controversy in this area because of the Bible belt. Tiffany mentioned that however people feel about something, will always start at a young age.
We talked about breaking our topic into 3 different area such as, picture books, non-fiction, and fiction books that relate to religious controversy.
We ended our chat by deciding that we would all continue to do a little more research via the computer, our own librarians, or looking deeper into some of the books mentioned.