Opting out of “Fahrenheit 451″

A Maryland parent has gotten his daughter’s school to excuse her from reading the Ray Bradbury anti-bookburning classic “Fahrenheit 451.” Now he wants the school district to remove it entirely from the curriculum.
The irony in this is incredibly rich, but apparently totally lost on the father in question. He has not read the book, but he’s looked through it, he says, and “found the following things wrong with the book: discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, ‘dirty talk,’ references to the Bible and using God’s name in vain.”
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