Latest "Harry Potter" protest
A mom in Gwinnett County, Ga., wants all the "Harry Potter" books taken out of the school district's libraries because they contain "evil themes, witchcraft, demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, spells and teaching children all of this." She admits she hasn't read any of the books, because (she says) they're too long, and she doesn't have time.
You can read the local newspaper's story here. An accompanying editorial notes that this mom wants the "Potter" books replaced with the "Left Behind" series.
There have been countless such anti-"Potter" challenges, most of them repeating the arguments of the countless anti-"Wizard of Oz" challenges through the generations. Which work on our syllabus, I wonder, would this mom hate the most?
You can read the local newspaper's story here. An accompanying editorial notes that this mom wants the "Potter" books replaced with the "Left Behind" series.
There have been countless such anti-"Potter" challenges, most of them repeating the arguments of the countless anti-"Wizard of Oz" challenges through the generations. Which work on our syllabus, I wonder, would this mom hate the most?
posted by Andy Duncan at 2:40 PM
4 Comments:
don't forget about all the zombies every which where...her child would probably not be allowed to enroll in a class taught my a "writer of zombie fiction who forces those stories of sex, violence, confusion, witchcraft, and sorcery upon his poor students."
heaven forbid we learn about new things and new worlds and work our imagination...
sad thing is her kids probably sit in thier rooms playing video games all day, perpetuating eye damage and a mind that cannot imagine on it's own...
PS my quote
I think people like this are a bunch of kooks. I've never read Harry Potter and nor do I plan to but I don't not read them because they're evil. She probably doesn't let her child read fairy tales either cause they have magic in them. People like this need to get a little bit of sense.
Isn't the "Left Behind" series about armageddon? That's something I want my little children reading about. Maybe I have it wrong though.
"No sex life for her," Katie writes of this Georgia mom. Doubtless you're right about her view of sex in fiction, but presumably she has HAD sex, at some point, else she wouldn't be a mom. (Unless she's a stepmom or an adoptive mom.)
Clayton, you're right to wonder about what this mom's kids are up to. In 99 percent of such cases, the kids themselves are never heard from. The parents get publicly offended on the kids' behalf, but in many instances the kids were never offended in the first place -- though they no doubt are embarrassed by the public spectacle made by their outraged parents.
As for the "Left Behind" books, see my link posted above.
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