Hey, Ed--

OK, I give. :)

This is where I'm coming from.

--I post a warning when I do Hallowe'en Story Time because the fundamentalist Christians object, so I give them a chance to stay away.

--The last time I purchased books on non-Christian religions for the children's non-fiction collection, I got an earful. Christian/non-Christian ratio, still 5:1.

--One of my colleagues got stopped when she went to vote by a Christian extremist who complained that our library has the most witch books in the county system. (I couldn't say, but I doubt it.) My co-worker, bless her, replied that the reason the woman found witches here is that she came here to look for them.

--People have serious conversations about Satanism in Harry Potter.

I'm a religious minority. I get a little sensitive. Several Christian churches' members are very nasty to the Mormon elders who visit here, give my assistant (a Hindu) dirty looks, can't stand it that our former board president is a Unitarian and the present director is a Catholic, and then there's me, Satan in a dress. (Wait 'til they find out the children's librarian in the nearby system library is Wiccan! And no, I'm not going to tell them.) Then they have the nerve to complain when they send missionaries abroad who are treated badly. If they behave toward those not of their church in the nations they visit the way they behave around here, no wonder!!

When I hear about disenfranchised Christians, that's the tone I hear it in. Sorry you got caught in the backscatter.

A pax on both our houses. ;)

Best--
Mary Anne