Oct
07
2006

Gwinnett County Mother vs. Harry Potter

Let's think about this for a second here. You've got four kids. You want to ban Harry Potter from schools. Wait–why?

Because you think it's a secret way to get kids interested in Wicca? Lady, I hate to tell you this–but I know some Wiccans. They can't make brooms fly or turn lead into gold or anything cool like that. If they can and they haven't hooked me up with some magic by now then I'm going to be pissed. But be that as it may.

It's fairly obvious that you can handle keeping your four kids from reading Harry Potter. So if you've got your kids covered, just exactly who are you trying to protect?

Ah, everyone else. It's not enough that you can affect your own children. You want to control what everyone else reads too. So not only do you think that you and your family are too weak to handle reading Harry Potter and come out with your faith unscathed…you think no one else can handle it either.

God forbid (no pun intended) that later in life they should get ahold of some Richard Dawkins or some Robert Anton Wilson or anything that might make them think. They're in danger from J.K. Rowling for crying out loud! Man, that must be a really sad spiritual place to be, don't you think?

Oh, and thank you Victoria Sweeny for having common sense and using it to protect the students of Gwinnett County from people like this. It's bad enough they should be in public schools without having this to deal with on top of everything else.

Found via Drudge.

5 Comments »

  • jhayne says:

    My friend Ray has told me about this one kid he knew in school whose mother was a psycho-xtian. She pulled him from public school and put him in Catholic school because his class was reading The Hobbit, obviously an evil book about magic and very anti-god, and they wouldn't change it after she complained. The first book the Catholic school had him do a project on? The Hobbit.

  • Widge says:

    That is six flavors of awesome.

  • Sunny says:

    Well, you can't be TOO pissed. We did invite you to our Halloween festival. :P

    As for your post… nicely stated. We all know how evil Tish is, thanks to HP. (Wait; maybe that's not the best example, is it?)

  • Widge says:

    Well, no, no pissed here. Although maybe Cat can spin gold out of whatever he wishes, considering the HUGE tracts of land you guys have up there.

    And yeah, I think Tish predates HP. So that's out. ;)

  • Misty says:

    I think that harry potter is not witchcraft and that chocolate ice cream is very good for the soul

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