Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Gee, they've only been around for years now...what took her ignorance so long? ;-) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100400377.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100400377.html</a> ATLANTA -- A suburban county...is now being asked to ban Harry Potter books from its schools. Laura Mallory, a mother of four, told a hearing officer for the Gwinnett County Board of Education on Tuesday that the popular fiction books are an "evil" attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion. Board of Education attorney Victoria Sweeny said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban "Macbeth" and "Cinderella." ========= Heh...my kinda Board of Education (despite the fact there's no witch in "Cinderella"...obviously no LPers are on that Board). They would also have to ban "The Chronicles of Narnia" which are embraced by so many for their Christian hemes, but surely that would never cross her mind... Ms. Mallory, your 15 minutes of fame are up---next!
Originally Posted By alexbook This kind of stuff has been around for years. Richard Abanes has written a couple of books on the subject, "Harry Potter and the Bible: The Menace Behind the Magick" and "Harry Potter, Narnia, and the Lord of the Rings: What You Need to Know About Fantasy Books and Movies."
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Some people love to beat their heads against the wall. Strange, but true. <<there's no witch in "Cinderella">> Those people must consider Fairy Godmother to be a witch, since she performs magic.
Originally Posted By FaMulan I would take a guess and say she hasn't read those books. There is not one scene in which a Wiccan ceremony takes place, there are Christmas celebrations depicted and Easter celebrations mentioned. There is a definite good vs. evil theme in the books along with it being a coming-of-age story. In the books, more often than not teamwork and straightforward problem solving are used to crack the mysteries, not magic. The logic of the schoolboard memeber may have been such that if the Harry Potter books are banned, than any work mentioning magic or having magical characters would also have to be banned. feh.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy When the books were newer one of my friend's moms said she didn't like the books (she saw the 1st movie) because "the power of the good and evil characters come from the same place". ?
Originally Posted By jdub Yeah, I saw this story. At first, I thought my newspaper was running "best-of" stories. Sure it's getting cold outside--perfect book-burnin' bonfire season--but I wish these dizzies would concentrate on what THEY are reading, instead of trying to be dictators over the rest of us.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Gee, they've only been around for years now...what took her ignorance so long? ;-) < too easy, so I'll let it go as it likely took her that long to try and read one with the intelligence she is showing....
Originally Posted By DlandJB Must really be a slow news day. As FaMulan observes, there is nothing at all Wiccan about the Harry Potter stories.
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy And when undeserving-A-list-star Paris Hilton claims she was punched out by a D-list star, yes---slow news day indeed.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut I do not have a problem with their subject matter, I just have a problem with them being so freakin' boring. No excitment what so ever. I cannot believe they are so popular. I mean, bring on the hammers to the head for cripes sake.
Originally Posted By DAR Newsflash to the mom in Georgia and others like her. Harry Potter, it's not real.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>one of my friend's moms said she didn't like the books (she saw the 1st movie) because "the power of the good and evil characters come from the same place"<< Not exactly. It is Harry's love for his parents, and theirs for him, that makes him such a unique and continuing challenge to the evil Voldemort.
Originally Posted By jdub That, and the fact that while "Harry" is merely an EMBARASSING name, "Voldemort" out-&-out sounds like a good old-fashioned AFFLICTION.
Originally Posted By hopemax Harry Potter isn't the only book on the hit list this week... A guy in Texas wants Fahrenheight 451 banned. <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/stories/MYSA100706.1O.fahrenheit3ed.2055eb0.html" target="_blank">http://www.mysanantonio.com/op inion/editorials/stories/MYSA100706.1O.fahrenheit3ed.2055eb0.html</a> cue irony
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Ok, here I am born 'n raised in GA. All I can say is the mom in said article is off her rocker.
