We better do something quick about all this book banning. This is America. They just don't ban books here. Especially the Bible, and one of them sure enough did get banned at an elementary in Utah just the other day.

   You can't do that! You just can't! We'll be thinking back to the day when Bibles were banned all across the Roman Empire. We'll be recalling how William Tyndale was strangled and then burned at stake for the offense of making the Bible available to the masses.

  Sure hope that librarian up in Davis County, Utah, runs and hides before they haul her away to burn her at stake.

   Yeah, I go a little too far. Nobody's coming after librarians to burn them at stake. Still, the fact remains the banning of books in America has reached such a point that even the Bible is in the sights of some.

  Where did it start? Was it with pornography? Was it with books that hail gays and lesbians? Or, was it with the so-called Critical Race Theory?

  Wherever it started, it has got to stop. Freedom does not accept force as its master. Free means choice even if sometimes we make the wrong choice. 

  Should there be warnings and labels, and books placed in areas where parents must nod their heads and say, "Yes, it's okay for my child to read that book"? I think so. And off on what is not too much of a tangent, freedom of speech does not mean you can throw up a pornographic billboard along the freeway to sell your brand of lingerie. Doing that forces the person with sensibilities to view what they don't want to view. The freedom to speak is also the freedom to not have to listen -- or view. Your freedoms should not curtail the freedoms of others. It's that old maxim: Your freedom ends where my nose begins.