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Title: Activists see momentum in book ban
Post by: Shana A on May 06, 2010, 11:30:17 AM
Activists see momentum in book ban
The 9.12 group looks to the Lenape district.

By James Osborne

Inquirer Staff Writer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20100506_Activists_see_momentum_in_book_ban.html (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20100506_Activists_see_momentum_in_book_ban.html)

The day after members of a Burlington County conservative group successfully petitioned to have a book on teenage homosexuality labeled obscene and removed from a high school library, organizer Gerry Grabinski was ebullient.

The local chapter of talk-radio and television personality Glenn Beck's nationwide conservative watchdog network, Burlington County 9.12, had won a minor political coup Tuesday night, and Grabinski was hopeful its larger message would gather momentum as a result.