Singapore is putting the freeze on a children’s book about the Central Park Zoo’s “gay” penguin couple — by taking copies from libraries and destroying them. The country’s National Library Board will pulp three copies of “And Tango Makes Three”, claiming the tale is inappropriate, government officials said.
“We support teaching children about conventional families, but not about alternative, nontraditional families,” said Yaacob Ibrahim, the country’s minister of communications. The approach is to reflect existing social norms, and not to challenge or seek to change them.”
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