Your March 20 editorial, ”What`s fit to read in Wheaton,” reviewed the conflict over textbook acceptability and concluded: ”A community school board cannot ignore the sentiment of a substantial segment of its community.” Where did you get that idea?
Wheaton has, unfortunately, a band of strong-voiced, weak- minded, self-righteous censors who have taken it upon themselves to dictate what residents will read, watch, hear, see and seek. It is not, in a community of more than 50,000, a ”substantial segment,” merely a loud segment.
When this form of ”concerned” citizens bands together, they simply reflect the same pattern that has contaminated the pursuit of freedom and truth in nations worldwide. It is never needed, never necessary and usually a destroyer of the honest efforts of decent people to live together without passing judgment on others at the expense of liberty and self-determination.
