What brings a blogger out of semi-retirement?
I wasn't quite ready to acknowledge my semi-retirement, although frankly I was getting a little bored posting one shooting-fish-in-a-barrel note after another.But this one, a poor soul on a one-woman mission to ban Harry Potter from da liberry, is just too good to pass up.
Laura Mallory of Loganville filed an appeal last week to get the best-selling book series out of the schools’ media centers. She is an evangelical Christian who has three children at J.C. Magill Elementary School.I keep waiting for the tipping point, where otherwise decent people recognize that they're being had by the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and innumerable flying-monkey wingnuts who insist that "Christianity is under ATTACK." I keep thinking, "surely these voters recognize that they are being played for fools, right?"
“I think the anti-Christian bias — it’s just got to stop,” Mallory said. “And if we don’t say something, we’ll just keep getting pushed out of the schools. And I pay taxes, too, and I think that gives me a voice to speak out about this.”
And then the depressing reality sets in, that this foolishness more self-perpetuating than I'm willing to credit. The more reasonable people criticize censorship attempts like this, the more Christ-like a Laura Mallory allows herself to feel. She's the real victim! She's the one being persecuted!
posted by hillbilly ragger @ 9:10 AM
