Word: lubbock
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Joseph R. Palmore doesn't seem too keen on the recent campaign of the Lubbock, Texas school board to rid student attire of various "satanic symbols" ["The Devil Went Down to Texas," Sept. 12]. Fair enough. In my 18 years growing up in Lubbock, the school board managed to do many a foolish thing. Regrettably, however, Palmore's lampoon leaves his Harvard readers with the impression that our hometown (Palmore is from Lubbock, too) is some sort of theocratic backwater, a place where decency and common sense are casualties of the ongoing struggle against "the Evil One." This is simply...
...Jewish; most of Lubbock, as you can imagine, is not. In fact, Lubbock is predominantly Southern Baptist. It has been described as the "buckle of the Bible Belt" and is reputed to have more churches per capita than any other city of its size...
...Lubbock leaders have also taken steps to stamp out "the mark of the beast"--three Greek letters sigma in sequence (tough luck, advanced calculus students), three sixes or three F's. ("Note that the letter `F' is the sixth letter of the alphabet...
RATHER than just oppose Satan's message, Lubbock leaders are on the attack against His messengers--who now pose as members of heavy metal bands...
...have occurred to you that there might be some pesky civil liberties concerns about all this banning business. But school officials in Lubbock appear to have written all that off using a "clear and present danger argument." The day of judgment, after all, could take us by surprise...