Duke Students Boycott Pornographic Reading Assignment

By Published on August 25, 2015

A group of students at Duke University have refused to read a book assigned to all new students, saying the graphic novel’s depictions of sexuality “compromised” their religious beliefs.

Fun Home was selected as “shared experience” reading for the Class of 2019 at the North Carolina university.

The novel is an autobiography of Alison Bechdel, a lesbian, whose father was a closeted gay man.

But some have taken issue with the novel’s depiction of sex and nudity.

“I feel as if I would have to compromise my personal Christian moral beliefs to read it,” student Brian Grasso wrote in a post to fellow students on Facebook. …

 

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