Forbidden Library (stolen link)

K. mentioned a banned-books link which is in some ways more snappy and interesting-looking than the ALA's page, while containing some of the same type of information: www.forbiddenlibrary.com

If you check the list of banned/challenged books by title, you will note, under the letter "B", a book highly favored by many prospective book-banners: the Bible, as translated by William Tyndale, who was strangled and burned at the stake in 1536 for the "crime" of translating the New Testament into a vernacular language at a time when the religious and political authorities wished to control the general public's knowledge and interpretation of the scriptures.

When I worked in a public library, I always made a point of including Tyndale's translation in any Banned-Books Week display I put up, for several reasons: as a way of trying to defuse potential objectors who might argue that BBW was politically "biased" against Christianity, as a way of acknowledging that Christian texts can be the target of censorship too, and as a sort of coded message against allowing earthly authorities to control religious belief. I somehow doubt that all three messages were received by the same people.