An outstanding resource for the fight for marriage
by Campbell Markham, MercatorNet:
This morning I showed my eldest daughter (and journalism major) a copy of David van Gend’s new book. “Oh dear”, she said, smiling wryly at the provocative title and garish LGBT rainbow cover. I said, “The printer refused to print this book. They had a contract, and pulled out at the last minute. ‘Due to the subject matter and content,’ they said.” “I’m not surprised,” she replied, sadly.
And I was.
There was no outrage. No sense of injustice. No anger that books are slain at the press. No frustration that an entire point of view is squelched at the source. She didn’t agree with the printer, but she accepted their action as normal. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum rides again in 21st Century Australia.
But we can thank the printer—the Opus Group—for the far greater interest that this will stir up for Stealing from a Child. Just as the old Index became a kind of must-read list for free-thinking university students, many more will now want to get hold of “The book they refused to print,” “The book they didn’t want me to read.”
The questions is, is Dr van Gend’s book worthy of such a keen interest?
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