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STATE AND REGION BRIEFS
Mother appeals 'Harry Potter' decision
LAWRENCEVILLE (AP)
A woman who asked the
Gwinnett County school
board to ban Harry Potter
books is taking her case to
the state.
Laura Mallory of
Loganville, Ga., is appeal
ing to the Georgia Board of
Education a May 11 deci
sion by the county board
to keep the best sellers on
school library shelves.
Mallory, a former mis
sionary, filed her complaint
in September, claiming that
the books promote “evil
themes, witchcraft, demonic
activity, murder, evil blood
sacrifice, spells and teach
ing children all of this.” A
panel of parents, teachers
and community members
at J.C. Magill Elementary,
where her three children
attend school, voted down
the complaint.
After an April 20 public
hearing, the school board
upheld the panel’s deci
sion. Board members said
the books promote critical
thinking skills and imagi
nation and should not be
censored.
New judge named
in redistricting
lawsuit
ATHENS (AP) A new
judge has been appointed to
hear arguments to redraw
Athens’ state Senate lines,
which split in half the
Democratic stronghold.
Senior Judge Arthur
Fudger was appointed
Monday and will take the
bench Thursday.
Fudger’s appointment
comes after another spe
cially appointed judge, John
Girardeau of Gainesville,
recused himself when he
learned two of the dozens
of court officials named in
the lawsuit have worked as
bailiffs in his courtroom.
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Brunswick 91 75 pt sunny
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National Cities
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Boston 67 61 rain
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officials from several north
east Georgia counties are
defendants in the case in
which three voters asked
to overturn a Republican
backed redistricting plan
that split Athens-Clarke
County into two Senate
districts.
One of Athens’ current
state representatives,
Democrat Jane Kidd, is
considered the biggest loser
in the redistricting, which
made it harder for her to
win a race for the Senate
District 46 seat. But Kidd
is not a party in the local
lawsuit.
Instead Kidd is awaiting
word on whether the U.S.
Supreme Court will hear a
similar case challenging the
redistricting.
Local judges who might
hear the Clarke County
case recused themselves in
May.
Meanwhile, ballots are
printed, voting machines
are programmed and more
than 100 Clarke County
voters already have ballots
for the July 18 primary,
making any change for this
election cycle a difficult
proposition for elections
officials.
Federal judge
hears argument in
gay club suit
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Miami 88 79 t-storm
Minneapolis 87 73 t-storm
New York 78 63 rain
GAINESVILLE (AP) A
federal judge heard argu
ments Monday in a lawsuit
that claims a northeast
Georgia school district dis
criminated against a stu
dent gay rights club.
U.S. District Court Judge
William O’Kelley took the
case under advisement and
indicated that he would
issue a ruling before school
starts in August.
The American Civil
Liberties Union Filed the
suit on behalf of White
County High School
graduate Kerry Pacer,
president of PR.I.D.E. or
Peers Rising In Diversity
Education.
The suit claims White
County school officials
violated the Federal Equal
Access Act during the 2005-
2006 school year by barring
PR.I.D.E. from meeting
on campus, while allowing
other non-curricular clubs
to do so.
Principal Brian Dorsey
testified he decided no non
curricular clubs would meet
on campus.
But ACLU attorneys
presented morning bulle
tins as evidence that other
clubs did meet and morning
announcements about the
meetings were made on the
high school’s public address
system.
Pacer testified that she
heard announcements
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Perry 93 68 sunny
Rome 96 67 sunny
Savannah 92 72 pt sunny
St. Simons Island9l 75 pi sunny
Statesboro 95 74 pt sunny
Thomasville 93 72 mst sunny
Valdosta 92 70 pt sunny
Warner Robins 94 67 sunny
Waycross 94 70 pt sunny
Phoenix 109 82 sunny
San Francisco 70 57 windy
Seattle 62 56 rain
St. Louis 90 72 mst sunny
Washington, DC 82 64 pt sunny
about other non-curricular
clubs on the school PA. sys
tem during her senior year.
Controversy began in
February 2005 when Pacer
and her friends tried
to form a Gay-Straight
Alliance club for gay class
mates and supportive stu
dents. The school board
agreed to allow the stu
dents to start the club, but
later school administrators
recommended eliminating
all non-curricular clubs at
the school.
The club, which changed
its name to Peers Rising in
Diversity Education, con
tinued to meet off school
grounds.
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OBITUARIES
JENNIE GOODWIN RQBUCK
PERRY Jennie Goodwin Robuck, Perry, formerly of
Raleigh, N.C., went home to be with the Lord on June 11.
Robuck was born on May 13, 1910 on Coosaw Island, S.C.
She is survived by two sons: Frank Robuck Jr. and wife
Linda of Raleigh, N.C., and Don Robuck and wife Diane of
Jemison, Ala.; six grandchildren: Gerri Robuck Herakovich
and husband Doug, Shelly Robuck Bishop and husband
Chip, Denise Robuck Arceneaux and husband Cliff, Donnie
Robuck Jr. and wife Deborah, Derek Robuck, and David
Robuck; and four great grandchildren: Jamie Herakovich
and Michael, Lee and Kate Bishop.
A funeral service will be held today at 2 p.m. at Christ’s
Sanctified Holy Church in Perry.
Flowers are acceptable, or a contribution can be sent
to Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church, 6821 Greystone Dr.,
Raleigh, NC 27615. Please sign the online register at wat
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Southern Baptists to
choose new leader
in contested election
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By TIM WHITMIRE
Associated Press Writer
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP)
A rare contested election
to determine the leader of the
nation’s largest Protestant
denomination pits three
candidates representing dif
ferent potential directions
for the Southern Baptist
Convention.
Delegates known as “mes
sengers” were to begin vot
ing Tuesday afternoon, dur
ing the second session of the
church’s annual meeting. If
none of the three candidates
wins more then 50 percent of
the vote, the top two were to
advance to a runoff Tuesday.
Since moderates bowed out
of SBC politics, conserva
tive leaders of the 16.2 mil
lion member denomination
have often selected presi
dential nominees who ran
without opposition. And in
other years, Ronnie Floyd, an
energetic churchbuilder from
northwest Arkansas, might
have been a consensus.
Floyd has successfully
applied the “megachurch”
model commonly seen in non
denominational Christian
churches to a Southern
Baptist context a record
that speaks to the denomi
nation’s concerns about stag
nant growth and a decline in
the rate of baptisms.
Floyd’s First Baptist
Church in Springdale, Ark.,
has spun off a second cam
pus, the nearby Church at
Pinnacle Hills, and the two
churches claim some 15,000
members in a fast-growing
region dominated by corpo
rate giants such as Wal-Mart
and Tyson Foods.
But Floyd has been criti
cized for his churches’ rela
tively low level of giving to
the Southern Baptists’ coop
erative program, in which
autonomous congregations
pool money to fund overseas
and domestic missions. Floyd
says his churches spend plen
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ty of money on domestic and
international evangelism and
outreach, but prefer to oper
ate those efforts themselves;
his detractors see an indepen
dent operator not sufficiently
committed to the denomina
tion’s collective effort.
Frank Page, pastor at the
small First Baptist Church in
Taylors, S.C., has built much
of his campaign around his
church’s commitment to the
cooperative program, noting
that his congregation sent 12
percent of otherwise undes
ignated offerings to the pro
gram last year.
Page is the choice of a group
pastors, many from a younger
generation than the current
SBC leadership, who have
complained that the denomi
nation suppresses disagree
ments over styles of worship
and dogma. Wade Burleson,
a pastor from Enid, Okla.,
whose Internet blog post
ings about internal debates
of the denomination’s pow
erful International Missions
Board spurred an effort to
remove him from the panel,
has endorsed Page.
Page has said he believes
his candidacy is a longshot
and that it would take a “mir
acle” for him to be elected.
Last week, a third candi
date with impeccable conser
vative credentials entered the
race. Jerry Sutton, pastor at
Two Rivers Baptist Church
in Nashville, Tenn., and cur
rently the SBC’s first vice
president, said he decided to
offer himself for nomination
as an alternative to Page and
Floyd.
Sutton is the- author
of a 2000 “The
Baptist Reformation: The
Conservative Resurgence
in the Southern Baptist
Convention,” that traced the
takeover of the denomination
by conservatives in the 1970 s
and 1980 s, and 'he is edit
ing the new “Encyclopedia of
Southern Baptists.”
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