Georgia rules Potter can stay on school shelves

[Professor]

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/12/14/potter.ban.reut/index.html

Georgia rules Potter can stay on school shelves

ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) -- Harry Potter fans in Gwinnett County, Georgia, can breathe a sigh of relief.

The Georgia department of education Thursday upheld a decision by the county board that would allow the wildly popular series by British author J.K. Rowling to remain in school libraries, Gwinnett school system spokesman Jorge Quintana said.

In October 2005, Laura Mallory, a mother with children at Gwinnett elementary schools, asked a local committee to ban the books about a young wizard, saying they were violent and promoted witchcraft.

The application was denied, so she appealed her case before different local and state officials. "At all levels the decision has been to keep the books on the shelves," Quintana told Reuters.

The state board decided the matter on a technicality, ruling that Gwinnett acted within its legal authority, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Web site.

"I didn't do a good enough legal job because I didn't hire a lawyer," it quoted Mallory as saying. The newspaper said she could file an appeal with the state superior court.

[Professor]

"I didn't do a good enough legal job because I didn't hire a lawyer," it quoted Mallory as saying. The newspaper said she could file an appeal with the state superior court.


She didn't hire a lawyer?! I'm amazed. How did she expect to win?

[CheesyMuslim]

Sorry bout that,

1. But this tale is a tale of darkness, and is poison to young minds.
2. Liberals see no problem with these tales.
3. More force from the dark side.

Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

[Elrathin]

1. But this tale is a tale of darkness, and is poison to young minds.
2. Liberals see no problem with these tales.
3. More force from the dark side.


BWAHAHAHAHAHA Ok that was funny, thanks for the laugh Chess.

I'm guessing you have never seen or read any of the Harry Potter Books or Movies have you?

[Professor]

1. But this tale is a tale of darkness, and is poison to young minds.
2. Liberals see no problem with these tales.
3. More force from the dark side.


What are you talking about?

The Potter books are really a struggle of good vs evil. There is a lot of Biblical symbolism in there. Just look at it a little deeper, and maybe you'll see something.

There was a church that used Harry Potter as a VBS theme.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/leaders/newsletter/2005/cln50808.html

[Buck Laser]

1. But this tale is a tale of darkness, and is poison to young minds.
2. Liberals see no problem with these tales.
3. More force from the dark side.


What are you talking about?

The Potter books are really a struggle of good vs evil. There is a lot of Biblical symbolism in there. Just look at it a little deeper, and maybe you'll see something.

There was a church that used Harry Potter as a VBS theme.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/leaders/newsletter/2005/cln50808.html


'Fessor, you know Cheesy probably hasn't read any of the Harry Potter books.:P I'd look for him to attack Christianity Today when he gets around to it.

[Labrocca]

1. But this tale is a tale of darkness, and is poison to young minds.
2. Liberals see no problem with these tales.
3. More force from the dark side.


BWAHAHAHAHAHAÂ*Â*Ok that was funny, thanks for the laugh Chess.

I'm guessing you have never seen or read any of the Harry Potter Books or Movies have you?


You are finally realizing that some of CWN's posts are actually very humorous. Whether or not that's his intent I can't figure out but to take him too seriously is detrimental to your sanity.

[NortheastCynic]

Very true Labrocca, but unfortunately it is all but impossible to distinguish between Chess' posts. His "serious" posts and his "funny" posts are very, very similar in content and structure.

-NC

[BoogyMan]

I cannot imagine why anyone would see Harry Potter as dark and evil. It is a classic tail of good versus evil with the good winning in the end.

[Buck Laser]

I cannot imagine why anyone would see Harry Potter as dark and evil. It is a classic tail of good versus evil with the good winning in the end.

I know a fair number of Christians who've been on a kick about witchcraft for many years. In my Kiwanis Club in DeKalb, where we put on a haunted house for the entire 24 years I was a member, there were always a few in the community who opposed it because of its "satanic" ties. In my opinion, a good many people refuse to consider ideas that someone has convinced them are not in accord with Christian beliefs. The most obvious case of this has to do with evolution and other scientific theories, but the Harry Potter books fall under the ban as well. The interesting thing to me is that if people understood either--evolution, or Harry Potter--they wouldn't be on their white horses, riding off in all directions at once.

What one considers "satanic" or "pagan" is almost completely in the eye of the beholder: practically every single component of our traditional Christmas celebration comes either from ancient festivals and celebrations or from more recent secular/commercial traditions. That's why the Puritans and a good many ultra-conservative Christians refuse to celebrate either Christmas or Easter. The "War On Christmas" people are fools in my judgment, because what they're protesting really has very little to do with religion.

Back to Harry Potter: two of my five grandkids have read the books, and I expect a couple more to begin reading them this summer. I'm glad that kids are finally getting some healthy fantasy that's relatively untainted by marketing. And I expect them to learn some good moral lessons.

[Drocket]

It is a classic tail of good versus evil with the good winning in the end.

If you've somehow managed to get a copy of the unfinished book 7, please be sure to include spoiler tags if you're going to write stuff like this :P

[Professor]

Hey Chess I’ve got a proposition for you. If you read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (the first and shortest Harry Potter book) with an open mind; I will read Bill O’Rielly’s Culture Wars, also with an open mind.

What do you think?

[BoogyMan]

Hey Chess I’ve got a proposition for you.Â*Â*If you read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (the first and shortest Harry Potter book) with an open mind; I will read Bill O’Rielly’s Culture Wars, also with an open mind.

What do you think?


Now that sounds like a fair challenge. I do believe that someone of Professor's well read status would have read Oreilly anyway just to know what it said. :)

[micfranklin]

I'm glad Georgia decided on this. I'd be real ashamed if they pulled a good children's novel off the shelves because a select few are opposed to it.

[Professor]

Hey Chess I’ve got a proposition for you.Â*Â*If you read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (the first and shortest Harry Potter book) with an open mind; I will read Bill O’Rielly’s Culture Wars, also with an open mind.

What do you think?


Chess it's been about two days, what's your answer?

[CheesyMuslim]

Sorry bout that,

1. But I totally forgot about this thread.
2. Haven't read it in a long while.
3. i don't think so professor.
4. I don't mind melt with witchcraft books.
5. So nope.
6. I have seen a movie or two in this series, and its full of witchcraft references.
7. And that's not likely to change, and or am I interested in it.

Regards,
SirJamesofTexas