My high school English teacher had her classes read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and after a few weeks, a few of the other teachers and parents complained about a rape scene in the book. So, knee-jerk as usual, the school made her stop teaching it and banned it from the district, even though her students (who usually loathed reading anything) loved it!

But my teacher was awesome - she didn't give up. She fought the censorship, and after going a long way, the State of Ohio came in and told the school they weren't allowed to tell her she couldn't teach it anymore, and that if anyone had any objections they would have to find another teacher. She won an Intellectual Freedom Award for it in 2006.

Badass.

The Kite Runner is a great book too, by the way.