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Barnes & Noble

I receieved this in Email from a Mom who has young children who goes to Barnes & Noble same as my Daughter who shops there with my Grand Children purchasing books for school projects.

I would not appreciate my Grand Children walking buy and seeing this matieral lying open on a table in their store.

Barens & Noble dangerous place for your kids.

Dear Worldview Weekend and Christian Worldview Network Readers,

In Collierville, Tennessee, recently, an 11 year-old boy named Landon Howse was walking through the Barnes & Noble bookstore when he noticed a book lying open on one of the reading area tables. His dad, Brannon Howse, was right behind him. What Landon saw were graphic pictures of two men engaged in sex. The book was titled "Ultimate Gay Sex," and is one of the many sexually explicit books offered in Barnes & Noble stores.

Mr. Howse was obviously stunned and upset at what his young son had just been exposed to just walking through a general bookstore. When Mr. Howse complained to the store management that this kind of material should not be on the bookshelves anywhere in the store, especially a store children frequent, he was met with indifference. When he complained to law enforcement that Barnes & Noble was in violation of the Tennessee "harmful to minors" statute he was given the run around.

Since this story broke, AFA has learned that this is a serious problem in Barnes & Noble stores across the country. Many parents have written to say they have had the same type of heart wrenching experiences with their children as Barnes & Noble does not place the homosexual pornography behind the counter or even in a restricted area not open to minors. Anyone can go in and find it on the shelf. I wanted to warn parents and grandparents about this danger because this is the largest bookstore chain in America and other bookstores have similarly have no responsible policy when it comes to placing these kinds of books in theirs stores.

Please help us send a message to Barnes & Noble Chairman Mr. Leonard Riggio. He needs to demonstrate corporate responsibility and either remove this material from Barnes & Noble stores altogether or, at the very least, place it behind the counter or in a restricted area where minors can't access it.

UPDATE! ,,,

Issue Details - Barnes & Noble dangerous place for your children

Barnes & Noble immediately began rejecting emails from concerned parents who used the OMD delivery system. In essence, they don't want to hear from you. Please don't let B&N ignore you. Send the sample letter below and send your email via your computer's email system. Be sure to add your own comments too.
Sample letter ,,, Dear Chairman Riggio:

Books like "Ultimate Gay Sex," with graphic sexual pictures, need to be removed from your store or at least restricted to an area where children can't view them. Your response to my concern will determine if I will patronize Barnes & Noble or not.

Mr. Stephen Riggio, CEO sriggio@bn.com
Chris Troia, Chief Information Officer ctroia@bn.com
Mary Ellen Keating, Senior V.P. of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs mkeating@bn.com
Jaime Carey, Chief Merchandising Officer jcarey@bn.com
Carolyn Brown, Director of Corporate Communications e-mail: cbrown@bn.com

If you'd like to personally call B&N, their corporate office number is 212-633-3300.

posted by playing

According to what I've read about Barnes and Noble, they were the first to have gay/lesbian books in their store, starting in 1971...I guess people should expect it.

posted by Dee2008
2 months ago

I raised two great children, both got Master degrees, good jobs and no felony convictions.

I did not spend a lot of time protecting them from the world we live in, they saw the sexy billboards, Playboy and Hustler magazines, Movie and TV prevues and they learned that there is both normal sex and weird sex in the world same as there exists sin and virtue, honesty and thievery.. It did them no harm whatever

A book store sells books
Parents look after children,

You do your thing as best you know how, and let B&N do theirs as they see fit

So There......................

posted by brewguru
2 months ago

brewguru, I pretty much agree with you. However, I don't think it would hurt business at any book store to put all the sexuality books in an area with a little gate to discourage children from wandering in. I totally agree that it's the parents' responsibility to monitor the children and keep track of them, but in a bookstore you really don't see some sections until you're right there, and there's nothing to prevent somebody from putting sex books out anywhere in the store on any table. I also agree that seeing a book on gay sex, or any other kind of sex isn't going to hurt your kids, but I can see the argument from moving them.

Actually, the last time I was in a Barnes and Noble, they had a separate children's section, so they know how to segregate certain types of books. But, there again, there's no way to prevent some pervert from wandering into the kids area and dropping off inappropriate books.

So.... should Barnes and Noble stop selling books that the right-wing Christian movement doesn't like? Nope.

posted by Michibilly
2 months ago

B&N has the right to sell that type of book but I would think that section would be away from the children's section of the store and the manager should see that his store staff be on the outlook for any books place in an inappropriate section and remove it immediately. I personally visit B&N often and have never seen such books laying around the store. Our local B&N has separate reading area for parents with children and adults only.

posted by pinkroses67
2 months ago

The problem is also a lack of responsibility on the part of the customer who left the book out. I can't believe someone would do that knowing that kids could see it - heck, I don't want to see it either for that matter! This attitude that "this is how I am and you can just deal with it" is not right. We all are different and we have to consider each other as we go through this life.

I am totally against censorship.

El