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Dublin is a small town (16,000) in central Georgia. And what's brewing there may say more about the mindset behind Religious Freedom Restoration Act proposals and law than anything you've read or heard to date.

Kathy Gill, Writing in the Huffington Post

The NAACP is involved - Did Everyone Bury the Lede?

I don't want to retell the story - I just want to point out that there's a story here that seems to have gone unnoticed in plain sight. As reported by Raw Story, The Geogia Watchdog and the

The NAACP said they met with the school and the teacher to air their concerns and that Perry was accompanied by her husband Bill Perry, who sits on the local school board.

Now, why would the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People be involved? Oh. Perhaps the family that complained is black? Or perhaps it's just a significant fraction of her students?

The Georgia Watchdog - the blog that broke the story - paints quite a picture regarding a Parent Teacher Association conference that led to the involvement that might just explain their concern.

The teacher’s name is Nancy Price Perry. She teaches at Dublin Middle School in Dublin, Georgia which is located between Macon and Savannah. Her husband is of the ilk of Erick Erickson and had a local “news” show where he talked about the perils of gay marriage, religion, etc., etc., in the community — his name is Bill Perry and his “show” was called Talk to Me with Bill Perry.

Bill Perry is a member of the Board of Education and sat in on the student-teacher conference — the “strong man” show to intimidate the parents at the meeting where the parents complained. His presence there let it be known that the BOE was backing his wife….or at least that is the impression he wanted to convey to them.

Imagine for a moment that this was your child and you were in that room. Consider how damn intimidating that would be, thinking about all the ways this Wasp-nosed Pecksniff could make your life difficult.

Now, if you happen to be white, or passably so - imagine how much worse that would be if you were Black in an area where things like this happen? And imagine just how infuriating it would be if you happened to be Black, Baptist and had voted for Obama?

I bet some of you don't have much trouble imagining that.

And that's why the NAACP is taking the lead on this, I betcha. But I'm sure the ACLU and the FFRF are staying abreast of this.

That might make Boss Hogg - I mean, Dublin City Schools Superintendent Dr. Chuck Ledbetter - realize that this has definitely been a failure to communicate.