By TOM PHILLIPS - Thursday, October 8, 2009
The
offending book, And Tango Makes Three
School authorities in Poland have
refused to withdraw a children's book about a pair of gay penguins from their
bookshelves - despite threats from a neo-Nazi protest group. The book, And
Tango Makes Three, tells the story of a penguin chick bring brought up by two
gay dads. Aimed at children as young as five, it is based on the real-life
story of Roy and Silo, a pair of male Chinstrap Penguins at New York's Central
Park Zoo who raised a chick. The book has proved controversial in many
countries - it has topped the list of the books people most frequently asked to
be banned from public libraries in the USA every year since 2006.