Westminster Ca school dstrict official leads the charge to keep US in the Dark Ages

While the Pope conspires to "poach" good Anglicans back into the Roman Catholic Church, leaving both the head of the Anglican communion, Rowan Williams, and the head of the Church of England, Queen Elizabeth II, speechless, another religious, Dark-Ages era battle looms on this side of the pond.

Westminster, Ca., is not only proving to be a small enclave of Orange County but full of small minds. Or, at least one: Judy Ahrens, a school official, has started a campaign, in 2009, to ban a Maya Angelou classic, "I Know Why the caged Bird Sings." Why? Because Angelou's autobiographical book details the rape that left her from speaking for a few years.

Bernard Shaw wrote that while the soldier says war is hell, we yet say it is a sin. And not even the good, small people of Westminster have started this campaign against the sin of war, particularly as started from lie upon lie [another sin, n'est-ce que pas?]

But we are talking, again, about Orange County, honorary member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith [aka, The Inquisition] in the tarnishing state of California.

Gratuitous carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan of the nation's young in desert tombs is implicitly OK. That it be continued by the Conundrum in Chief, Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate, should tell us who did what in the parlor and with which weapon.

But this continues to be besdies the point. Only off-the-grid weirdos, like San Francisco, makes stands against war crimes and give LGBTs rights.

A tiny mind in tiny Westminster takes the rostrum on behalf of our children's "innocence" to ban a book.

That such claptrap is still suffered, that this loony isn't responded to like the Black man who appeared at the LA City Council dressed in Klansman regalia, says something about the peculiar ghosts of this young nation.

The Dark Ages were hearkened precisely by such acts as the burning of libraries by the nominally "Christian" warriors.