from the AP 12/14/06
ATLANTA - A mother who fought to ban Harry Potter books from her children's suburban Atlanta school district on the grounds that they promote witchcraft is considering an appeal after the Georgia Board of Education voted Thursday to keep the books on the county's library shelves.
The board members voted without discussion to uphold the Gwinnett County school board's decision to deny Laura Mallory's request to remove the best-selling books from school libraries.
Mallory has worked for more than a year to ban the popular books from Gwinnett schools, claiming the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in religious witchcraft.
"It's mainstreaming witchcraft in a subtle and deceptive manner, in a children-friendly format," she said.
This breaking news story will be updated.
© 2006 The Associated Press.
ATLANTA - A mother who fought to ban Harry Potter books from her children's suburban Atlanta school district on the grounds that they promote witchcraft is considering an appeal after the Georgia Board of Education voted Thursday to keep the books on the county's library shelves.
The board members voted without discussion to uphold the Gwinnett County school board's decision to deny Laura Mallory's request to remove the best-selling books from school libraries.
Mallory has worked for more than a year to ban the popular books from Gwinnett schools, claiming the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in religious witchcraft.
"It's mainstreaming witchcraft in a subtle and deceptive manner, in a children-friendly format," she said.
This breaking news story will be updated.
© 2006 The Associated Press.
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Re: Really? Appeal? move on with your life.
Thu, December 14, 2006 - 11:57 AMWow....never ceases to amaze...
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Thu, December 14, 2006 - 12:07 PM>>"It's mainstreaming witchcraft in a subtle and deceptive manner, in a children-friendly format," she said.<<
Interesting. I've thought the same thing about Christianity for a long time. -
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Thu, December 14, 2006 - 12:25 PMLOL
the best part is that the lady evidently never read the books, because which holidays do they celebrate? Christmas...Easter...you know the usual witchcrafty kinds of holidays.... -
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Re: Really? Appeal? move on with your life.
Thu, December 14, 2006 - 12:32 PMWhich begs the qustion about the *real* origins of those holidays, doesn't it?
Pagan holiday usurpers!!! -
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Thu, December 14, 2006 - 12:35 PMLOL
We like to think of it as creative borrowing....
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Re: Really? Appeal? move on with your life.
Thu, December 14, 2006 - 12:43 PMNo religion develops in isolation. They all have contacts and influences. -
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Re: Really? Appeal? move on with your life.
Thu, December 14, 2006 - 12:53 PMPreach it, sister! -
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Re: Really? Appeal? move on with your life.
Thu, December 14, 2006 - 12:56 PMYou should see me teach the letters of Paul. -
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Re: Really? Appeal? move on with your life.
Thu, December 14, 2006 - 3:06 PMWould love that!!!
You are the coolest... -
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Re: Really? Appeal? move on with your life.
Fri, December 15, 2006 - 12:46 AMthose people need to get a life before they can move on with their lives.
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Fri, December 15, 2006 - 2:55 AMbwahahaha.
of course you're right. -
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Fri, December 15, 2006 - 11:18 AM;-)
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Tue, January 9, 2007 - 8:19 PM<<It's mainstreaming witchcraft in a subtle and deceptive manner>>
What's subtle about it? The subtext of this sentence is that introducing kids to different ways of viewing the world is a bad thing.
