Scholastic's Stance on Lesbian Moms

According to some information I found on Bloglines in the School Library journal:

Apparently, Scholastic is refusing to publish a book for its book fair. The book is titled "Luv Ya Bunches" by Lauren Myracle. They have told her that she needs to remove some offensive words like "crap", "sucks", "geez", "God" (as in "Oh my God") and by writing out a pair of lesbian mothers. Now, I would think that would be a HUGE change to make in the story line. And why shouldn't they appear in the story? It is a real life experience that children are going through and need good literature to identify with. It would also be helpful for the friends of these children to see it in a book to see how their friend might be thinking or feeling. Do we leave out parents in mixed race relationships? What about parents with handicaps? No! Why would we leave out same sex parents?

Scholastic's credo states, "To enlarge students' concern for and understanding of today's world. To help build a society free of prejudice and hate, and dedicated to the highest quality of life in community and nation." It sounds like they are going directly AGAINST their own credo. Instead, they are continuing to perpatuate the prejudice against same sex parents by censoring them from books that are provided by Scholastic. Scholastic needs to realize that to help students understand "today's world", they must provide literature about all aspects of today's world. Whether or not Scholastic likes it, or the local school board agrees with it, or the local outspoken Christian parents like it, same sex parents ARE a part of "today's world". Shouldn't we teach our children to love, accept, and treat all people equally?

Scholastic needs to realize that it is a publishing company, not a parent of the children. Their parents should be the ones to determine if this book is or is not appropriate for their children. I, personally, want to expose my child to all types of people so that he doesn't have to "reeducate" himself as an adult as so many of the rest of us have had to do. I want to read this book as is...crap, sucks, geez, God, and lesbian parents included.