Faith-based News for Extra-TerrestrialsCHENEY ATTORNEY GETS PUBLISHER TO CANCEL REISSUE OF LYNN CHENEY'S BOOK
AP via Common Dreams:
NEW YORK (AP) - A publisher has canceled plans to reissue a racy novel by Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, after she said the book did not represent "her best work." New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), was going to reprint "Sisters," a historical romance published in 1981 that includes brothels, attempted rapes and a lesbian love affair...
Obviously though, they were more afraid it would spook the religious right. Here's a sample passage:
"Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl."... [*]
Juicy huh? I guess they were afraid she'd appear on Howard Stern.
Another point: since Fundamentalists believe that you can catch homosexuality and that it is such a tantalizing life-style that one should never mention it for fear others will be "recruited", publishing it might raise the question of whether Lynn Cheney caused her daughter's lesbianism.
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I had the unpleasant distinction of working in the same state as the "Reverend" Fred Phelps. This slender, well-coiffed hate-monger would show up to demonstrations in tight bicycle shorts and yell and scream as those us in "normal or straight" attire went about our business.
At one of these rather Twilight Zonish demonstrations, I stopped and asked the "Reverend" is his odd fear was due to unresolved homosexual urges on his part...it wasn't the first time I'd ever been assaulted, but it was the first time I ever felt that something totally rabid and out-of-control was assaulting me. Once I'd thrown him off and the police had stepped in and put the "Reverend" in the back of a car to cool off for a bit, the Sergeant on the scene made sure he had his back turned to the the folks from Westboro Baptist and said "we've all wanted to ask that question...guess now we have our answer." He handed me a take-out menu from a local cafe and told me if anyone asked, I was to tell them it was a citation.
So perhaps most of the fundamentalist, stridently anti-gay types lay awake at night and wonder in some bi-sexually curious fashion. My recommendation...ask them in front of the world. Their reaction is the best answer.
Posted by: CybScryb | April 3, 2004 10:11 PM