I don't know where to post this: re: Ann Frank's Diary

[SingleMomMonica]

My daughter is in the 8th grade and is required to read the Diary of Ann Frank. Last night she read to me from it and I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it. My daughter then advised that they were notified that this version is the complete version and that in the past several entries were removed from Ann’s Diary - specifically Ann is describing her homosexual desires and experiences with another girl prior to being in hiding. I was absolutely shocked.

Are these entries really true? Was Ann a practicing homosexual as she describes in her diary or are these entries which authorities claim are part of her diary actually fakes added to her diary by people with a homosexual agenda?

Regardless, I am very disturbed that this Diary of Ann Frank is required reading since it is clearly trying to glorify homosexuality! The book ought to be banned as there are far better works of those who lived through the Holocaust that weren’t homosexual sinners. I read plenty of them when I was in Junior High, I just don’t recall there names at the moment. My daughter and I just read one together just last year for the sake of learning more outside of school requirements.

 

[kennewickmike]

I have never heard of that. When we read it in school it never had that part in it. If it is fake, that is horrible.

 

[ibkc]

It’s not fake; the complete, unedited diary, including those entries, were not published until after Anne’s father died.

I don’t know why the decision was made to publish these highly personal entries or whether the intention was to “glorify homosexuality”, but calling the pubescent Anne Frank a “practicing homosexual” based on these entries is kind of over the top. She was a young girl, curious and a bit confused about sex, and she wrote about it in a diary that she thought no one would ever read. I’m pretty sure there have been only two people who have ever lived who were completely sin-free, and their names were Jesus and Mary. I have a feeling that the rest of us have plenty of things we’ve done in our lives that we wouldn’t want known by the whole world. Have a little compassion for Anne, please.

 

[JPUSC]

It’s not fake; the complete, unedited diary, including those entries, were not published until after Anne’s father died.

I don’t know why the decision was made to publish these highly personal entries or whether the intention was to “glorify homosexuality”, but calling the pubescent Anne Frank a “practicing homosexual” based on these entries is kind of over the top. She was a young girl, curious and a bit confused about sex, and she wrote about it in a diary that she thought no one would ever read. I’m pretty sure there have been only two people who have ever lived who were completely sin-free, and their names were Jesus and Mary. I have a feeling that the rest of us have plenty of things we’ve done in our lives that we wouldn’t want known by the whole world. Have a little compassion for Anne, please.

Yeah, who’s idea was it to publish someone’s private diary without their permission! I’m glad they took out the more personal parts in the abridged version.

 

[kennewickmike]

I am glad it not made up and part of someone’s agenda.

 

[PaulDupre]

Yeah, who’s idea was it to publish someone’s private diary without their permission! I’m glad they took out the more personal parts in the abridged version.

I’m glad I never kept a diary!