Ga. mother seeks Harry Potter ban

[Cobra]

Harry Potter is not Wicca it's fiction. FICTION

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_en_ot/potter_protest_7

ATLANTA - A suburban county that sparked a public outcry when its libraries temporarily eliminated funding for Spanish-language fiction 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."

"There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," she said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.

In June, the county's library board eliminated the $3,000 that had been set aside to buy Spanish-language fiction in the coming fiscal year. One board member said the move came after some residents objected to using taxpayer dollars to entertain readers who might be illegal immigrants.

Days later, the board reversed its decision amid accusations that the move was anti-Hispanic.

[BoogyMan]

This is just silly. There is a huge difference between a story and indoctrination.

Egads

[lily]

Is a new book coming out? Seems that's when this starts happening.

[dgridley]

People like this woman scare me..

[Labrocca]

Wicca is fiction too pretty much. What distinguishes any religion from being fiction? Are you saying Scientology isn't fiction? Heck even Christianity can be considered fiction.

Anyways...books are books and banning them in a PUBLIC library is silly.

[dgridley]

Farenheit 451 should be required reading for everyone.. it's not just Harry Potter books"they" are complaining about these days.. take a look at a list of previously banned books.. you'd be amazed to see what's on there:

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm

or

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.htm

[Buck Laser]

Farenheit 451 should be required reading for everyone.. it's not just Harry Potter books"they" are complaining about these days.. take a look at a list of previously banned books.. you'd be amazed to see what's on there:

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm

or

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.htm

Did you realize that just this week, some lame-o parent went to the schoolborad demanding that Fahrenheit 451 be removed from his kid's reading list? Brilliant.

[Anti-Racism]

There is a huge difference between a story and indoctrination.

Not really... ever read Uncle Tom's Cabin?

In this case, I have no sympathy for the "Ga. mother." If she wanted to ban porn, or commercial advertising, or something sane like that, I'd be on her side, but Harry Potter--?

[Anti-Racism]

take a look at a list of previously banned books.. you'd be amazed to see what's on there

...and at what's not on there. They don't even consider the really dangerous books to be banned. They're simply not socially acceptable.

[wonder cow]

These fruit loops are all too common in my neck of the woods. What gets on my nerves is that they often get a large number of people to go along with their nonsense.

[BoogyMan]

There is a huge difference between a story and indoctrination.

Not really... ever read Uncle Tom's Cabin?

In this case, I have no sympathy for the "Ga. mother." If she wanted to ban porn, or commercial advertising, or something sane like that, I'd be on her side, but Harry Potter--?


Yes, really. A story only has as much power over you as you give it.

[dgridley]

If I remember correctly, been tried before.. was banned in Mississippi:

http://www.banned-books.com/bbarticle-miss.html



Farenheit 451 should be required reading for everyone.. it's not just Harry Potter books"they" are complaining about these days.. take a look at a list of previously banned books.. you'd be amazed to see what's on there:

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm

or

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.htm

Did you realize that just this week, some lame-o parent went to the schoolborad demanding that Fahrenheit 451 be removed from his kid's reading list?Â*Â*Brilliant.

[Alonzo]

Well, at #88 on that list is Where's Waldo. Explain that one.

[dgridley]

"Where's Waldo?" was challenged because in the Beach Scene, one mean little kid is about to throw a bucket of water on a sunbathing woman who has untied the top of her bikini.