{"id":2163,"date":"2008-09-17T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-17T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T17:01:04","slug":"author-targeted-by-palin-she-s-my-mortal-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/09\/author-targeted-by-palin-she-s-my-mortal-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Author targeted by Palin: “She’s my mortal enemy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The author of Daddy’s Roommate<\/cite><\/strong><\/a> has responded to Sarah Palin’s attempt to remove his work from her hometown library. Celebrated author Michael Willhoite believes the Alaska Governor has a “small-town mind,” is an enemy of intellectual freedom, and a “disastrous choice” for vice president.<\/p>\n

As reported on The Huffington Post<\/strong><\/a>, Willhoite says he is not surprised that his work was targeted by Palin. And, he admitted to being “strangely flattered” that he was “on her list.”<\/p>\n

Openly gay Willhoite tells HuffPost’s Sam Stein:<\/p>\n

“I rather suspected one of my books might be the one she targeted. I can tell you right now, Ms. Palin is a very good mother and everything. But she is my mortal enemy. She is one of the enemies of the First Amendment and I can hardly [organize] my thoughts here, I am so offended by this.”<\/p>\n

9\/15\/2008<\/strong>
\nSarah Palin and evangelicals believe landmark gay parenting book is immoral<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A recent report in The New York Times<\/cite> emphasizes Gov. Palin’s relationship with religious extremists.<\/p>\n

The Times says she “…tended carefully to her evangelical base. She appointed a pastor to the town planning board. And she began to eye the library. For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral.”<\/p>\n

According to the report, Palin took direction from the extreme religious right.<\/a><\/p>\n

Laura Chase, Palin’s campaign manager during her first run for mayor in 1996, finds effects of the relationship “disturbing”.<\/p>\n

Chase recalls, “…in 1995, Ms. Palin, then a city councilwoman, told colleagues that she had noticed the book Daddy\u2019s Roommate<\/cite><\/strong><\/a> on the shelves and that it did not belong there.”<\/p>\n

Ms. Chase read the book, which helps children understand same-sex relationships, and said it was inoffensive; she suggested that Palin read it.<\/p>\n

The baffled campaign manager said, “Sarah said she didn\u2019t need to read that stuff. It was disturbing that someone would be willing to remove a book from the library and she didn\u2019t even read it.”<\/p>\n

9\/9\/2008<\/strong>
\nChecking the facts on Sarah Palin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our friend Dr. Warren Throckmorton<\/strong><\/a> helps us take a deep breath and collect ourselves in the remaining months of the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

In his latest blog post<\/a>, Dr. Throckmorton points us in the direction of FactCheck.org<\/strong> – a site that attempts to dispel some current myths about Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n

Among the facts, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania<\/cite>:<\/p>\n