MULLAHS ON THE MARCH IN ARIZONA

This is starting to get suspicious. First it was the "save marriage" amendment, then birth-control prescriptions and now it's books.


College offensive-reading opt-out advances
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona Published: 02.16.2006

PHOENIX — A Senate committee voted Wednesday to let university and community-college students opt out of required reading assignments they consider personally offensive or pornographic.

The legislation stems from complaints by Christina Trefzger, who attended community colleges and Arizona State University. She said some required reading assigned by instructors is morally unacceptable to some.

"A lot of students are being forced to choose between their personal or religious beliefs and the demands of education," she told members of the Senate Committee on Higher Education on Wednesday.

One specific complaint was aimed at "The Ice Storm," a novel dealing with adults and children experimenting with sex, drugs and suicide. Trefzger described it as a "pretty sexually graphic book."

Sen. Thayer Verschoor, R-Gilbert, said he also heard complaints from a Maricopa Community College student.