Censorship; The Household Right

Now that the semester is drawing to a close I feel that the line between censorship that should be upheld and censorship that should be admonished is harder to define than I first thought.
For instance, I think I truly believe in the right to abstain from something yourself, if you know it will be detrimental to your mental or emotional well-being ( such as violence in movies ) though I truly frown on those who censor their children from things they believe are detrimental to their well being. These parents censoring what their children hear or see usually have the best intentions, but so many take it too far. I watch Jesus Camp and get chills from how similar to brainwashing it is to restrict a child's view of the world to that degree. Knowledge is power right? The more you see and hear the more you know, so how do we decide what is detrimental and what is potential power for our countries youth?

So on that note I wanna write about when people take Censorship into their own hands ( in this case, for the worse rather than the better).

There's a play called Corpes Christi by Terrence McNally in which Jesus and his apostles are depicted as gay men living in modern day Texas. Now, i Understand how,, if one were to find this offensive they would simply not attenmd a performance or simply not buy the play. But people could not bear the thought that ANYONE would see or read this. Everywhere in Austrailia there were church leaders and soccer moms calling for the opening of the show to be canceled. The author even recieved death threats.
This is when Censorship scares me. When people have such a problem with a mere idea ( in this case ; the idea Jesus was gay) that they cannot be satisfied in simply rejecting that idea as a personal truth but they have to make sure no one else is accepting it or even thinking about it. And THAT is tyranny, when people believe they have the right to what you do or do not think or believe.