Bush impact & Book-Banning (OT)

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 5518

Hi --

Demelza wrote:

> Seeing how the Supreme Court voted against school prayer before school
>
> football games (which seems awfully anti-Religious Right to me), I'm
> not to worried about the "Religious Right's" influence on the Supreme
> Court. I'm more worried about the non-"Religious Right" groups that
> want to ban books such as "Huckleberry Finn" and "Catcher in the
> Rye" due to their un-"Politically Correct" content.

You are aware that several of the current justices are approaching a
very advanced age, correct?  If any of them should die or retire from
the Court during a Bush administration, he would select the new
replacement justices.  *That's* the issue.  The composition of the Court
is currently centrist enough to make reasonable decisions in most
instances, but that could easily change.  Add in another Scalia or
Clarence Thomas and who knows what sort of decisions might be rendered.
IMO!

I do agree with you that book-banning is not limited to groups with
fundamentalist ties.  Many books are banned because they are deemed to
be not politically correct (your examples, plus "Little House on the
Prairie" spring to mind).  The question then becomes what happens when
the book-banning is challenged?  It eventually ends up in the court
system, and inevitably in the *federal* court system.  Federal court
judges & S Ct appointments are handled by the executive administration
then in power in Washington.  So . . . . deduce from that what you will.

Penny



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