NC school district bans book about penguins

Another politician helps keep the world safe from gay penguins..."And Tango makes Three," a story about two male penguins who raise a baby penguin, was banned by the Charlotte Mecklenburg School District. According to the Winston-Salem Journal, there were no complaints about the book from any parents, and Superintendent Peter Gorman either screwed up or make a mistake. He received an email inquiring about the book from a local politician:

Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James, a Republican, had e-mailed Gorman to see if the district had the book.

"I am opposed to any book that promotes a homosexual lifestyle to elementary school students as normal," he said.

After that, Gorman wrote a memo which led to the book banning. Either he caved in or he didn't write a clear memo.

The ban came in a Nov. 30 memo from district administrators to school principals and library staff. Gorman said parents and a Republican county official had asked him about the book.

A miscommunication between Gorman and his chief of staff, Robert Avossa, led to the book being banned with neither a written complaint nor an advisory committee review at a school as required by district policy, Gorman said.

"I screwed this one up," Gorman told The Charlotte Observer.