It seems that what should have been a simple and fun contest was wrought with controversy and not just about Candy’s win.

The “G-rating” had a lot of eyebrows raised.

Read about it here and here.

On digging however, I came upon this. Apparently the blog awards folks were trying to emulate the guidelines of the Family Friendly Blog Roll.

“I don’t care what you write about, your religious affiliation, or whether you are male or female. The sites I will not accept are ones that are simply advertising or spam, and ones that could not be read out loud to my Grandmother, while her preschool age great-grandchildren gather around her feet, without her throwing a shoe at your head. Get the picture? No foul language or posts that would obviously offend in mixed company. If it isn’t obvious, I guess I’ll have final say.”

Uh. I guess the powers that be missed the post about the nun rape and torture.

There are a couple of things I wonder about. How is it that a woman who never participates in any homeschool carnivals, or as far as I can tell isn’t on the homeschool blogosphere radar at all, gets nominated and wins the homeschool blog awards?

But be that as it may it seems the HSBA folks and Candy are going to have some decisions to make. Since she will now be linked directly on the front page of the HSBA site, will she continue her anti-Catholic posts knowing that to do so is going to produce a much bigger outcry than before? I guess it depends, but I think it is certain that a post from her now will make a much bigger ripple in the pond than previously . It’s up to her whether she wants to deal with that or not.

If she does go ahead and post her anti-Catholic garbage as before, the HSBA folks are sure to hear about it as well and I’m pretty sure that’s not what they signed up for. I do intend to hold them accountable on this including informing the Catholic League when and if it happens again.

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