First question: What on earth could Maine have been thinking?!

Bangor, ME - Today the Christian Action Network (CAN) filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Maine for censoring a fundraising letter state officials claimed contained “an inflammatory anti-Muslim message.” Maine officials fined and banned CAN from mailing any future letters under the threat of criminal prosecution. Liberty Counsel represents CAN.

Source: State of Maine Sued for Censoring CAN .

Second question: This has been rattling around since June. Where are the civil libertarians? Try doing a Google search for “Maine ‘Christian Action Network’” and see if you find any of them standing against government censorship. Or try it this way to get news from earlier in the summer, without the recent lawsuit information: “Maine ‘Christian Action Network’ -lawsuit”.

I’ve sought out independent verification of CAN’s statement on this. Pajamas Media (linked above) seems to have done a thorough job. Other than that, I’m simply led to my third question: where are the media on this? Isn’t this news? Try the two searches I already suggested at news.google.com. You’ll be quite interested especially to see how the second one (“-lawsuit”) comes out.

Fourth question: where is all this heading?

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One Comment

  1. SteveK says:
    October 2, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Wow. Since when is it inflammatory to encourage people to petition their state representatives asking them to change school curriculum? Seems you can only petition to add something to the curriculum, but never to remove it because that would be inflammatory to the people that wanted it there in the first place.

    Remember that the next time you vote FOR something. Consider that it might be there forever, because it will be inflammatory to petition for its removal. Is it inflammatory to petition for the removal of your state representative?

    But what has Maine bureaucrats roiling is a fundraising mailing sent by CAN (a copy of which was provided to Pajamas Media) regarding a public school curriculum used in California requiring students to pray to Allah, dress up as Muslims, adopt Muslim names, and learn the five pillars of Islam. Since Christians and Jews are not given similar accommodations, CAN encouraged their supporters to send a petition to Maine Gov. John Baldacci asking him to prevent such instruction in Maine public schools.

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