'Advocating and celebrating the abomination of sodomy': the cultural reception of lesbian and gay picturebooks.

 
  Tale of 'gay family' angers Tories. LONDON. 
 
  A schoolbook about a five-year-old girl who lives with her father and 
  his homosexual lover has raised the ire of the Thatcher Government 
  which is seeking to ban it. Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin is the 
  most provocative of twenty-seven schoolbooks which have become the 
  targets of a bitter campaign to purge the classroom of lessons on sex 
  outside marriage. In a backlash against the permissive education 
  policies of Leftist councils, parents at one London school burned 
  copies of Eric and Martin and kept children home for a day in protest. 
  Critics contend the councils, which run public schools in London's 
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