comicgirl said:Georgia mom vows appeal after Board of Education rejected request
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.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16204853/
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/in...nel_id=&url_article_id=14074&change_well_id=2
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WTF?
Personally, I pictured her wearing purple stretch pants and eating twinkies. I know we've chewed this rag before, but is there anyone who thinks this woman is right? Come on![]()
Calvin said:I guess it's pretty fitting that someone arguing on the side of censorship would resort to wanting worded insults stifled.
No, he doesn't, mostly on the grounds that the book doesn't actually support Satan or similar, and he went on to say he thinks the lady has a point in general, and that there would be a problem if it were actually a book that encouraged witchcraft or whatever, missing the point entirely of the issue at stake here. The reason she's wrong isn't because she misunderstood harry potter, it's wrong because she wants the available material to cater to her religious principles, rather than deciding based on any real safety issues.Kritish said:I didn't read the last page did he say he did want Harry Potter banned?
The only type of books that I think there could be a defense to ban could be pro-nazi lititure.
You're right... She doesn't suport it, and neither do I, but the difference between me and her is that I'm not gonna ban a children's book.Calvin said:No, he doesn't, mostly on the grounds that the book doesn't actually support Satan or similar, and he went on to say he thinks the lady has a point in general, and that there would be a problem if it were actually a book that encouraged witchcraft or whatever, missing the point entirely of the issue at stake here. The reason she's wrong isn't because she misunderstood harry potter, it's wrong because she wants the available material to cater to her religious principles, rather than deciding based on any real safety issues.
And there really shouldn't be a ban on pro-nazi literature. If the kids parents/guardians/teachers are worth anything at all, it's quite an easy bit of literature to put into context in order to better educate them.
But if it's not a children's book, you seem fairly open to uncalled-for censorship. Hence why you were called a fascist ********. I have no idea how you could interpret this as flaming. I'm insulting you based on the content of your character, that's about as non-bigoted as you can get.kakarot069 said:You're right... She doesn't suport it, and neither do I, but the difference between me and her is that I'm not gonna ban a children's book.
LOL!!!Darthphere said:Probably. But Harry Potter's witchraft is strong in Dew.
You could have at least left the comment about how appropriate it is to have post-deletion in a thread about censorship, especially since the posts deleted didn't have anything inflammatory, but rather an extremely light insulting of an opinion that a certain poster found to be destructive and wrong, concerning the topic at hand, and that it's a shame we have such touchy people that a (barely) strong yet utterly rational opinion about someone else's views can't be expressed. At least give me that much.Dew k. Mosi said:see, what happen, you broke the admin
Stop the arguing now. Talk about the topic not each other.
Just summing up what happened in the deleted posts. Since, y'know, censorship kinda sucks.kainedamo said:See, now I think Cavlin is the *******, 'cause he won't shut the hell up![]()