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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bevan Hurley

Author banned from reading unicorn book to Ohio school because solo parent claimed he was recruiting kids ‘to become gay’

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An Ohio author was banned from reading his book It’s Okay to Be a Unicorn after being told by school district in the state it was too “political”.

Jason Tharp, 45, was scheduled to read the book, whose cover features a blue and purple unicorn and rainbow-coloured title, to students at an elementary school in the Buckeye Valley Local School District on 6 April.

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