Would-be book-banners are certainly feeling empowered lately.

From The News & Observer:

The parents are also planning on forming a “Parents Council on Literary Discretion” to review individual school reading lists to look for other books they may find questionable. The parents are getting help from Called2Action, a Christian group which says its mission is to “promote and defend our shared family and social values.”

The books being challenged are Beloved, The Chocolate War, and The Color Purple.  The school system already has the usual policy in place -- if the parent or student objects to the book, they are offered an alternative.

Wouldn't it just be easier on everyone involved if Called2Action (Nice name, by the way.  LOVE the '2'.  Couldn't you have worked in a backwards 'R' somewhere?  BooksRBad, ThoughtsRDangerous, Don'tBGay, something like that?) just gave up trying to turn the public schools into their own little instruments of Christian indoctrination and built their own?  If they have the money to send people all over the country trying to ban books, I'm sure that they have the money to do their own thing.