Texans Further Stirred
by Sex-Education Books
Some 10 days after Montgomery County, Texas, county commissioners agreed not to ban It’s Perfectly Normal from public-library shelves without a formal challenge, an official complaint about the book is triggering the formation of a materials-review committee, the September 10 Conroe Courier reported. Although the review process was just getting underway when the commission met September 9, commissioner Alan Sadler assured an overflow crowd of some 200 that the body would “look up the methodology at how children’s books get on the shelves and probably amend that policy to include citizens” in the selection process.
One of the few attendees to favor a formal review was Rachael Edwards, who said she gave the Courier her unmarried surname for fear of reprisal. She characterized calls for the firing of library Director Jerilyn Williams as a movement by “a conservative group of people who were on a witch hunt.”
Ironically, critics at the commission’s September 9 meeting were already calling for the removal of Harris’s primary-school title It’s So Amazing, according to the September 10 Houston Chronicle.
Posted September 16, 2002.
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