Letters from our readers-October

LETTERS:Vote yes on Library Bonds

Currently our Montgomery County libraries are underfunded, undersized, and in need of improvement. Personal differences aside, we need to remember that these libraries serve our entire community, and they make Montgomery County a better place to live. Access to reading is one of our society's greatest treasures. We have the freedom to read and write, we have the freedom to imagine and dream, and we have the freedom to explore and learn about things that are not of our world. Our community libraries provide us with these opportunities.
Our libraries are overcrowded, and are no longer sufficient to address the needs of our community. The population of Montgomery County has grown tremendously over the last few years, and it is the responsibility of our voters to give our libraries the ability to grow along with our county. In the last 11 years, our county's population has grown 73%. In the last five years alone, our libraries have experienced a 28% increase in patrons who use the facilities. The libraries simply cannot handle such growth; your vote is needed.
The lack of space available is the number one concern we must address, and your vote for the library bonds will go a long way to voice this community's opinion on this county-wide issue. Over the past few years outside grants have provided more internet access and computer workstations to the public, however the libraries have run out of space to house these computers. We currently have 130 workstations for public use, and more are needed to meet the growing community. For every additional workstation, we must remove more books. Recommended guidelines call for a library to have at least two books per person within the county, and we currently have 418,369 books to provide to over 325,000 people. This is over 200,000 books short. Current standards also recommend a library should have at least one square foot for every person in the county, and our libraries occupy 108,400 square feet. This is about 200,000 square feet short. Some of our libraries even have to store books in other county offices due to lack of shelf space. This should be seen as a crisis that needs your attention.
An even greater concern is the number of people who have been turned away from the libraries due to lack of space. The Montgomery County libraries are to be accessible to the public, yet they cannot even tend to the needs of their most important customers, our children. Every year children are being turned away from the libraries' "Summer Reading Programs" because there is not enough space to accommodate them. The libraries' lack of space is also affecting services extended to our communities' families and senior citizens. We are experiencing problems allowing groups like the Boy Scouts, Habitat for Humanity, Daughters of the American Revolution, and many others to hold their meetings in our facilities due to the lack of space. The library's inability to provide these services is hurting our communities, our families, and our children's opportunities to learn and grow.
As elected officials and as a members of our community, we strongly encourage all voters of Montgomery County to vote and express their opinion on this county-wide issue. Your vote will decide if this bond is a wise investment of our money, and a wise investment in our county's future. We must continue to preserve the opportunities and the resources that our libraries provide us, and we must continue to look to our future by improving our facilities today. By voting yes on the library bond you are allowing our libraries to grow, you are allowing our children to continue learning, and you are allowing our communities to enjoy larger libraries that will provide for a better future for Montgomery County.

Ruben W. Hope
State Representative District 16

LETTERS:The people of this country need to wake up

I appreciate Mr. Bill Taylor's kind remarks about me in the Bulletin last week. (Bill spoke for the book "It's Perfectly Normal" at the Commissioner's meeting Sept 23rd) He too struck me as a very sincere man who cares about people and I respect that. But his letter proves my point. The facts about homosexual behavior are covered up by the gay agenda having become politically correct. They would like everyone to think that being gay, as Mr Taylor said, is just like being left handed. They desire to earn our pity and/or acceptance of their lifestyle. But the idea that homosexuals are simply born, not made, is not correct. And blanket statements such as "the entire scientific community backs us up" are easily disproved by going to the literature (literature which should be in our libraries, but is very poorly represented). Many expert medical doctors, psychiatrists, and scientists dispute Mr Taylor's contentions.
One very good discussion of the subject, "Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth", by Jeffrey Satinover, 1996, exposes the faulty science and politics-of-disruption used in the advancement of gay propaganda in the last 30 years. The author is a Harvard and MIT educated Jewish medical doctor and psychiatrist. The book lays out the case in detail that homosexuals are made through a complex set of circumstances resulting in sexual choices leading to compulsive/ addictive behavior which becomes embedded in the brain. The role of biochemical influence is small, and in any event means very little in terms of compelling an individual to become homosexual.
Looking at homosexual behavior in general, it is clear that when the option is accepted in certain cultures, more people engage in the Biblically sinful and medically dangerous habits. For example, whole tribal groups in New Guinea practice ritualized homosexual sex between men and boys. Somehow they've all "learned" to do it. Also, a very high percentage of prison inmates begin homosexual sex in prison, and continue with bisexual or homosexual activity once released. Another example is the recent high profile King murder trial in Florida. Evidence was presented from 13 year old Alex King, who wrote of his adult male homosexual lover, also a suspect in the murder of Alex's father, "Before I met Rick I was straight, but now I am gay."(http://courttv.aol.com/trials/king/docs/alexnotes1)
The point is kids can learn to engage in homosexual behavior by being made open to and accepting of the idea, by being seduced, by trying to fill a relationship void in their lives, etc. This is quite different from being left handed. Yet here we have a book in the library, "It's Perfectly Normal", which promotes to children the acceptability of a damaging and dangerous lifestyle, and sentences boys to an average lifespan reduced by 20 to 30 years.
We ban and discourage the addictive behavior of cigarette smoking, but promote the acceptability of addictions to homosexual behavior. We discourage cigarettes through TV and billboard ads etc, because average lifespans of smokers are reduced by 7 years and often end in debilitating illness. We wouldn't dream of putting in our library, child propaganda
normalizing cigarette smoking as a way to stem nervousness. Yet we promote homosexual behavior as OK to kids?! And we'll defend like crazy our ability to do this. Where is the logic? At root it's all about unrestrained sexual permissiveness, and an anti-family, anti self-control, culture of death (as Pope John Paul 2 rightly pegs it). The people of this country need to wake up.

Mark Cadwallader
Conroe, Texas

LETTERS:Sadler has a skewed perspective; an eye on Chance

County Judge Sadler in recent remarks wishes to move forward with county business leaving the book banning controversy jammed in county's craw. Sadler also clearly wishes to downplay his role in causing the controversy. A role he shares in part with the other members of the County Commissioners Court.
This and the related controversies stirred up by the Republican Leadership Council (RLC) are not going to go away as long as Sadler and the Court give undeserved credence to the RLC. Recall, please, that the RLC made a failed attempt to take over the Montgomery County Republican Party leadership in the last primary. This group now claims to represent a mainstream majority viewpoint in the county when it couldn't even democratically attain a majority of the county political party closest to its viewpoints. Surely the Commissioners don't believe that the other county political parties agree with the RLC's position and thus provide the spuriously claimed mainstream majority position.
No, Sadler, these issues will not go away until you have the gumption to tell this group they deserve no more attention as individuals than any other citizen. One way to do this is to refuse to accept directly from them any further book petitions (or other issues). When you accept them from the RLC groupies you provide more attention than they deserve. Simply tell the citizens to hand them in at the library as the process specifies.
Further, Sadler, your failure to stand by your employee, the library director, is repugnant. No county employee deserves to be treated as you allowed the RLC to treat her. You send a clear message to all employees that they are on their own when abused by citizens.
Your claim that the Court did not ban the books is totally disingenuous. Any good manager knows that even a lightly made comment to an employee is taken very seriously. Directly handing the library director - even symbolically if not physically - review forms about a controversial book is tantamount to an order to see the book removed. After all you ultimately are the one controlling all county librarians employment.
The Court indeed should not be involved with the library selection process, as you first indicate and then renege upon. How can you not be interfering when you say "...this balance favors the more liberal end of the spectrum." I suggest instead - as a centrist - that you are so far to the right based on your comments about "homosexual addiction" and others that you have a totally skewed perspective. Indeed, a perspective not suited to one of the fastest growing counties in the U.S.
I assure you that while I cannot vote for an opponent to you I am not voting for you on November 5th. My ballot will have no vote entered for the County Judge's race. I urge other like minded citizens to not vote in the County Judge race to send the message that you are not their candidate of choice. Let us just see how many votes you get versus the total votes cast.
Commissioner Chance I'll be watching you between now and your next election run. You've partially redeemed yourself with a comment about perhaps reconsidering the expansion of the book review committee if it came up again.

Rud Merriam
The Woodlands

LETTERS:Integrity of Community

Choosing a place to live and work is serious business. Once you've made your choice and settle in, chances are you will identify with your town and want to become a part of it. People with some talent and energy often contribute to their communities hoping to keep, and possibly improve the place they've decided to live their lives and raise their children.
Among the factors that stand out are the attitudes of people that live there. It would be foolish and probably less interesting if everyone lived the same way and thought the same way. What it is fair to expect though is for public institutions to uphold truths, either written or verbal as expressed by experts in a variety of fields and are the universally accepted facts or truths. This allows all residents the opportunity to agree or disagree yet doesn't deprive anyone from deciding for themselves.
Over the 25 years we have lived here we have found this to be a good town. People are caring, considerate, eager to be helpful and always friendly, folks ready with a kind word or helpful deed.
For a town our size, there are many outreach projects to help with food, clothes and toys for the needy. The shopkeepers give you time, offer assistance and treat each person with respect. The answer to a request for help is usually, "no trouble at all, "ma'am or sir.
What must be preserved along with a congenial atmosphere is an open mind to ideas that may be different than your own. To sustain our wonderful way of life here, we must preserve the freedom of ideas both written and spoken. It is not just the book choices made by the library personnel but respect for all the people who use our libraries. If any of our freedoms of choice are restricted it affects all who live here.
It is certainly my hope that the 5 women picked by County Judge Alan B. Sadler have this point of view when they perform their review task relative to the library.

F. Carol Schneider
Montgomery, Tx.

LETTERS:Homosexuals can't reproduce

I can no longer BE silent on the matter of homosexuality. I want to open my comment with the "fact" that homosexuals cannot reproduce according to their "own kind. " REMEMBER!! Homosexuals MUST recruit and introduce others to their repulsive, degenerated way of life. What member of your family do you want to fall victim to the "hawks?"
I am now reading comments how the homosexuals are "twisting" the Bible to justify their own perversions.
Homosexuality is not an alternative life-style acceptable to Jehovah God. Frequently, both gay and liberal preachers twist the scriptures in futile endeavors to make it seem that it is. (2 Peter 3:16)
Thousands of years ago Jehovah destroyed Sodom because most of the males of that city practiced it. (Genesis 19:4-25) Centuries later the apostle Peter likened men who copied those Sodomites to "unreasoning animals born naturally to be caught and destroyed."-2 Peter 2:6-13.
If we get our human values from the Bible, then lt's take all of it and not discard the parts you don't like. The Bible was a gift from God for the benefit of mankind, for their direction, for their betterment, for their comfort.
1 Tim. 1:9-11: "Law is promulgated, not for a righteous man, but for persons lawless and unruly, ungodly and sinners, . . . fornicators, men who lie with males, . . . and whatever other thing is in opposition to the healthful teaching according to the glorious good news of the happy God." (Compare Leviticus 20:13.)
Jude 7: "Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, after they . . . [had] gone out after flesh for unnatural use, are placed before us as a warning example by undergoing the judicial punishment of everlasting fire." (The name Sodom has become the basis for the word "sodomy," which usually designates a homosexual practice. Compare Genesis 19:4, 5, 24, 25.)
The last several decades have seen homosexuality approved or condoned as an alternative life-style. Millions of homosexuals have "come out of the closet" and now parade on the streets, flaunting their "Gay Pride." How does God view their homosexuality?
The Bible clearly stated some 3,500 years ago: "And you must not lie down with a male the same as you lie down with a woman. It is a detestable thing." (Leviticus 18:22) And nearly 2,000 years ago Paul showed that God's standards had not changed when he wrote: "That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error."—Romans 1:26, 27; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10; 1 Timothy 1:10.
Yet, so many of the clergy of today are practicing homosexuals that they have been able to establish a powerful homosexual lobby in many of the major religions. They demand that their life-style be recognized and that they be accorded the status of minister. A case in point is that of Canada's largest Protestant denomination, the United Church of Canada, whose leaders voted 205 to 160 on August 24, 1988, in favor of admitting homosexuals to the ministry.
Homosexuality can descend into sadomasochism, the joy of degrading and being degraded. For true Christians this life-style is totally unacceptable. The insidious propaganda now flooding out on its behalf must be shunned like the plague it is.
After writing this I can only ask the reader, can the Bible, Gods word, be any clearer?

Jerry Martin
Conroe, Texas

LETTERS:So much for Christian behavior

I read Judge Sadler's comments about not banning books and using the review process in place to consider objections to books that have been in the public library without concern for over seven years.
First of all, Judge Sadler did indicate in court session on September 9--available through the Open Records Act from the County Clerk's office in Conroe--that he would like to see the contested books out of the library. He had not read them.
He took the word of Mrs. Mark Cadwallader and Betty Anderson that the books were inappropriate for parents to read to their children because sexuality education books that mention the existence of homosexuality without condemnation are objectionable to them.
Children must be taught hatred and intolerance of minorities as church doctrine and public policy, as they were taught in churches during the battles over slavery.
There are lots of Bible references to sexuality and punishments disproportionate to incidents, such as slavery and stoning. The Bible condoned slavery ever since one of Noah's sons was enslaved to another son because he inadvertently saw his father's genitalia while his father was lying in a drunken stupor.
Judge Sadler treated speakers in opposition to censorship with contempt and disinterest during court session on September 23. His actions declared his partiality to his personal religious convictions, which he believes he should impose on the rest of us.
Second, Judge Sadler did not use the library policy in place, but rather sought to alter the policy by adding a citizen's committee to select books for the library so that Christian books might be equally represented as all other types of books, for balance. After hearing from mainstream citizens on this matter, Judge Sadler revised his position to appoint citizens from each of the precincts and add one for himself. These citizens will advise only about contested books for children and young adults. There will be an equal number of librarians to review contested children's and young adult books.
When the Republican Leadership Council and Christian Coalition representatives found that they did not have a plurality on a selection committee, they threatened Judge Sadler. So much for Christian behavior! Jesus never taught such behavior.
Make no mistake, Judge Sadler favors the far right-wing censorship of freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, except theirs.
All officials in the United States--and Texas is part of the U.S.--swear to uphold the Constitution of the U.S., including Amendments. If Judge Sadler feels that he can circumvent the Constitution as he pleases, Montgomery County needs someone else in that post.

K.E.S. Palmisano
Mainstream Montgomery County

LETTERS:Standing Against Censorship

I am truly disgusted every time I hear of another banned book, censored statue, or prohibited picture. Indeed, it is time to end Montgomery County's ridiculous surge of "moral" control. We must take a stand against censorship.
At a book banning protest this past Monday (September 30), I joined over 90 students from The Woodlands High School to demonstrate against the uncalled-for removal of two sexual education books: It's Perfectly Normal and It's Perfectly Alright, both by Robbie Harris. A group behind the removals, the RLC, has assumed that the moral standards of their members reflect the moral standards of our community. Never could they have been more wrong. Communities should reflect and embrace views of all kinds and all perspectives, especially when it centers on educating children. Rather than ban books which encourage tolerance of alternate lifestyles, we should promote them. Everyone must remember that our libraries only provide us with information; it is ultimately the parents who decide whether or not their children should have access to it.
Thus, I will continue to protest book banning and I ask that citizens of our community do the same. This is 2002; we left 1984 a long while ago.

Nitesh Gandhi
The Woodlands, Tx

LETTERS:RLC's plan is actually promoting the books

I would like to lend my voice to the growing number of objectors to the book "removal" of the Harris books. My guess would be that the sales of these books have skyrocketed. I, for one would, love to read them (I ordered the entire set of the Harry Potter collection to see what the buzz was about, and I loved these books). How many members of the RLC have actually read the books in question? In addition, I wonder how many of the objectors children have hidden under the covers with a flashlight to read the "damned" books? Many I would assume. These are the children with questions that go unanswered by their parents. These are the children who will grow up in ignorance and hatred.
It would also follow that the bond issue will be affected. Will we hear the Montgomery County Library decision before or after November 5? This issue will also affect the Republican party's already dubious stance in the upcoming election! Who would vote for a party that advocates (or allows) a right wing objection to art and literature. Another guess would be that the Republican Party is ashamed of the RLC! Embarrassed? These Cut and Shoot Republicans are more than likely avid supporters of the local KKK. A totally un-American travesty. But I will acknowledge their right to free speech. Ignorant, but free!
Now, I feel it an obligation to address another issue that seems to be burried. The disfigurement of a great work of art--the replica of Michaelangelo's David. Where do we draw the line? A fig leaf and deportment to the roof of a sporting goods store! How obscene. This statue of a Biblical hero by a renowned artist sculpted circa 1503 has more than historical significance. It is part of the global heritage. A fig leaf is obscene--not the nude statue of a Biblical hero. In the 13th century another great artist, Donatello, depicted David nude. Do we forbid our children to visit art galleries? What next? No TV, no computers, no movies, no books? This is completely insane.
I for one will never let myself shelter my children or my children's children from art, literature, or anything that creates an environment of free thinking! Thank you RLC for helping to promote these books and Michangello's art. Let's hope the knowledge of art and literature and it's roots will also prosper!

Jenean Lentell
Montgomery, Tx.

LETTERS:The Church supported Hitler

Mr. Jenkins would do well to visit a library. Germany is a country with a very strong "Judeo-Christian" culture; unless he suggests that the "Judeo" part is too prevalent. A powerful reason for Hitler's popularity rested on the fact that the churches supported him. I would also suggest a preliminary course on poetry. Perhaps he would then recognize the humor in the poem that he quotes.

Mike Dubuisson
Montgomery County

LETTERS:Needs a history lesson

Wow! Where in creation did Jim Jenkins get his history about Hitler? He must had made it up. It is not the history I have read. Yipes!

Maxine DeVries
Panorama Village, Tx

LETTERS:The homosexual defined

Television Evangelists are beating the homosexual war drum again. (I do not watch them, but when you are channel surfing, how can you avoid them.) These war mongers claim that the Bible clearly teaches that having sex with a partner of the same sex is a sin that should never be condoned. However, the Bible does not teach that having sex with a partner of the same sex is a sin that should never be condoned.
The confusion (that appears to be deliberately created) is based on the interpretation of the word, "homosexual." The war mongers claim that the use of the word homosexual in the Bible means having sexual relations with a partner of the same sex. However, the Bible is speaking of people who only love themselves (one homo' sexual). The Bible is NOT speaking about people who have sexual relations with partners of the same sex.
Cain was the first homosexual. He could only love himself. Everything that he did and said was balanced against what was in it for himself. This is the spirit that drove the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, too. And the same spirit is still loose in our world today. Can't you just hear the voice of Cain saying, "Am I my brother's keeper," every time that these war mongers start beating their drums.
The only thing that God forbids his creation from doing is to manipulate circumstances to get what you want from others by seducing other people into sin. God requires His people to be honest with themselves and with other people. People have been given free will which necessarily means that people will make mistakes. God asks people to learn from their mistakes and move on with their life. God loves all of his children, and this includes people who have sexual relations with a partner of the same sex.

Charles Henry Schoonover
Harlingen, Tx

LETTERS:More legitimate reasons

I think these people . Are taking this a little far. If you do not like a book do not check it out. And the parents have control over what there kids read. Or should have. If it is not one thing it is another. They should be more concerned about what there kids are doing at school. Or lets just be like the former soviet union. I bet you would not here any winning.
But people have there constitutional rights. So let them cry and one day they might have a legitimate reason to.

J.W. Hutchins
Montgomery

LETTERS: Free Speech or Free Lunch?

Sterling Huff, it didn't take long for you to turn your book banning argument into a very personal attack. (It's Freedom of Speech, plain and simple, ISSUE 38 by Sterling Huff) Let me try to give you a more reasoned view of history and the First Amendment.
Jews and Christians alike know that Adolf Hitler vehemently hated God and the church, and that the rise of Nazism was make possible by church timidity and weakness, not by church activism. (Remember Hitler burned Bibles too.) Surely, Sterling, you know that Nazism stands for "National Socialism", and that all forms of socialism have their intellectual roots in the political left (which restricts economic freedom through bigger government). Historians almost universally recognize that atheism and materialism formed the spiritual and philosophical foundation of Nazism. Indeed a strong Christian church in the 1930s Germany would certainly have prevented the rise of Nazi totalitarianism. In America, a strong Judeo-Christian tradition restrained 1930's socialism, and gave us the moral high ground to fight and defeat the anti-God Nazis and then contain the anti-God Communists.
Sterling, it is interesting that you admire and quote the socialist poet Heinrich Heine, who believed in government by an elite group of scholars and technocrats, who corresponded regularly with his close friend and associate Karl Marx (Stalin's ideological father), and whose religion was a strange form of pagan sensualism. (Sterling, you ought to be a little more careful with your sources of inspiration.) By the way, Heine wrote this poem to his future wife, Mathilde:

...And all your nagging I will face
with patience gentle force;
But if my verses you don't praise,
Then thou I shall divorce.

Evidently, Heine didn't have a problem with wife banning.
Sterling, banning books does not lead to burning books and killing people. Surely you realize that books are rejected by the current book selection process - the very process of selecting a book implies that other books are rejected. Any book selection process is inherently discriminatory. Are you also saying that the current process of rejecting books leads to burning books, with leads to killing people? Surely not. Since selecting and buying a book for the library means you can't spend that money on another boo, it makes perfect sense to conserve precious tax dollars by making the best selections. And who can best make the book selections which meet community standards? Citizens, of course (although Heinrich Heine would disagree). Citizens (by definition!) select books to their community standards, , and the United States Supreme Court has already affirmed their right to do so. After all, the citizens own the libraries and all the books in them, as well. To imply that citizens are not the judge of community standards is just plain silly.
The book It's So Amazing! was in the children's section of our libraries (for four-to ten-year-olds). Its cartoon illustrations are so vulgar that Channel 13 News, or any station for that matter, wouldn't show them on TV. (Just imagine making ABC producers blush with a children's book which our current library review board considers appropriate for four-year-olds. What does that say about the book and community standards?) In a word, this book steals the innocense of children.
Sterling, I stand solidly behind the First Amendment and the rest of the Constitution, as well. I fully respect your right to free speech (which is limited by laws against slander and libel), but your right to free speech ends when it obligates me to pay for it. Free speech does not include a free lunch.
Sincerely,

Jim Jenkins, President
Republican Leadership Council, Inc.

(Editor's Note: The Bulletin did not charge either Sterling Huff nor Jim Jenkins for their right to Free Speech in The Bulletin. However, The Bulletin did pay to have them printed. So where is our Free Lunch?)

LETTERS: Let's clarify the issues …

Much has been said the last 60 days about the issue of what books belong in our Montgomery County Library System.
The first thing I would like to make clear is that the Commissioners Court has listened to all the options and considered all the offered opinions about the issue of what may or may not be appropriate books to include in the children's section of the library. And we are unified in our feeling that qualified citizens should have reasonable input into the process os setting reasonable community standards.
The issue of what books are "suitable" or in good taste or even possible pornographic has been debated for years in our country. That debate didn't start in Montgomery County and it won't end here. And it never has included - in our county at least - adult books.
What concerns us, however, is that some of the media reporting on this "issue" have left out one of the most important points. That often unreported point is that Commissioners Court has never "banned" the two books currently in question. For that matter, we have never banned any book from our County libraries.
In this particular case, we only have followed existing library policy. That policy calls for taking a book out of circulation in the event a complaint is made. It is held out of circulation until it is reviewed by the appropriate, established library review committee. That policy has been in effect many years - well before the current controversy arose. That policy was followed in this case.
One more important point also needs to be made. Montgomery County Commissioners Court never will "review" books with an eye to making the ultimate decision on removing a book, not removing it, or simply relocating it to an appropriate section of the library.
This is the job of the library director, with input and guidance from the Library Board - if appropriate. But to me at least, it is apparent we do have a seeming imbalance in the number of books dealing with children's sex education, and that this balance favors the more liberal end of the spectrum.
I also believe it is the Court's business to have a voice in responding to this current issue. We have done so by approving a modification to the existing policy for the addition of five knowledgeable representatives to the review committee. Hopefully, these citizens will give positive input as to what our local community standards should be.
In any case, Commissioners Court has much more pressing County business to take care of for our constituents. It is both inaccurate and a disservice to the community to portray us as would be censors or book burners. We are not.
I am proud to say that I, along with all of our Commissioners Court members, are long term resident of Montgomery County and apparently many more citizens have the same sentiments. We have much more pressing, critical business in keeping up with being one of the fastest growing counties in the State and 28th fastest growing county in the U.S. Let's move forward in dealing with the positive issues and other business in this dynamic County.

Alan B. Sadler
Montgomery County Judge

LETTERS: Bravo, Bravo, Bravo

I would just like to take a moment to commend you on your coverage of the book banning controversey in Montgomery County. I am part of the group Mainstream Montgomery (www.mainstreammc.org) and greatly appreciated your take on the issue. I applaud you for having the courage to call out the RLC on it's incredible hypocrisy. Something no other media outlet has seen fit to do. My wife and I had a good laugh with the survey also!!!

Regards,
Matt Potter

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