The Nation - News from Feb. 3, 1987

Vice President George Bush welcomed religious broadcasters as powers in the political arena but urged them not to misuse their influence to foster banning “generally accepted” books. After praising his audience at the National Religious Broadcasters Assn.’s convention in Washington for fulfilling a spiritual need, Bush said: “There are those who would seek to impose their will and dictate their interpretation of morality on the rest of society. . . . There is no reason ‘Huckleberry Finn’ should be banned from the schools . . . . And there is no reason ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ shouldn’t be read. Closing our children off to the outside world isn’t going to protect them.”