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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - The adventures of boy wizard Harry Potter can stay in Gwinnett County school libraries, despite a mother's objections, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Laura Mallory, who argued the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft, said she still wants the best-selling books removed and may take her case to federal court.
"I maybe need a whole new case from the ground up," said Mallory, who was not represented by an attorney at the hearing.
Superior Court Judge Ronnie Batchelor's ruling upheld a decision by the Georgia Board of Education, which had supported local school officials.
County school board members have said the books are good tools to encourage children to read and to spark creativity and imagination.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, published by London-based Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, tell stories of children with magic powers. They have been challenged numerous times since 2000, making them the most challenged texts of the 21st century, according to the American Library Association.
At Tuesday's hearing, Mallory argued in part that witchcraft is a religion practiced by some people and, therefore, the books should be banned because reading them in school violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
"I have a dream that God will be welcomed back in our schools again," Mallory said. "I think we need him."
Alright, let's break this down a bit and show Ms. Mallory the error of her thinking.
First of all Harry Potter isn't 'witchcraft' in the religious sense. Harry Potter's Witchcraft is to Wicca (the 'witchcraft religion') as Fairy Tales are to reality. Another angle is that Harry Potter is to Wicca as "The DaVinci Code" is to real Christianity.
They're stories. They are meant to entertain. If she's reading more into it than that, she needs to up her medication.
Now, let's look at the argument, in part, that Harry Potter books promote witchcraft (as a religion) and therefore shouldn't be in schools. She then goes on to say, "I have a dream that God will be welcomed back in our schools again. I think we need him."
You can't have it both ways, lady. If you argue that a book you think messes with your reality doesn't belong in a school then you can't have a religion that DOES mess with people's reality back in schools. Perhaps because you think, wrongly, that everyone loves Christianity, no one will object to your desire to remove a children's book from the public school library. Keep your bigotry to yourself, please.
Tell you what. If you don't like the way public school runs, pull your kid out, home school them, teach them to be intolerant of other ideas, thoughts, religions and customs and then send them out into the world to be good, little, mindless terrorists for Christ. After all, that's what most Islamic nations do (although there, they have their idea of God IN the schools, so there's no need to home-school them). Yes, lady, it's attitudes like yours that cause incidents like the World Trade Center attack and the War on Iraq. If you could keep it to yourself, and they could, too, the world would be a lot more peaceful.
But until you see how attempting to spread your idea of the 'good religious world' to others fucks with the rest of the world, we will always have terrorism - and idiots like you.
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - The adventures of boy wizard Harry Potter can stay in Gwinnett County school libraries, despite a mother's objections, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Laura Mallory, who argued the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft, said she still wants the best-selling books removed and may take her case to federal court.
"I maybe need a whole new case from the ground up," said Mallory, who was not represented by an attorney at the hearing.
Superior Court Judge Ronnie Batchelor's ruling upheld a decision by the Georgia Board of Education, which had supported local school officials.
County school board members have said the books are good tools to encourage children to read and to spark creativity and imagination.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, published by London-based Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, tell stories of children with magic powers. They have been challenged numerous times since 2000, making them the most challenged texts of the 21st century, according to the American Library Association.
At Tuesday's hearing, Mallory argued in part that witchcraft is a religion practiced by some people and, therefore, the books should be banned because reading them in school violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
"I have a dream that God will be welcomed back in our schools again," Mallory said. "I think we need him."
Alright, let's break this down a bit and show Ms. Mallory the error of her thinking.
First of all Harry Potter isn't 'witchcraft' in the religious sense. Harry Potter's Witchcraft is to Wicca (the 'witchcraft religion') as Fairy Tales are to reality. Another angle is that Harry Potter is to Wicca as "The DaVinci Code" is to real Christianity.
They're stories. They are meant to entertain. If she's reading more into it than that, she needs to up her medication.
Now, let's look at the argument, in part, that Harry Potter books promote witchcraft (as a religion) and therefore shouldn't be in schools. She then goes on to say, "I have a dream that God will be welcomed back in our schools again. I think we need him."
You can't have it both ways, lady. If you argue that a book you think messes with your reality doesn't belong in a school then you can't have a religion that DOES mess with people's reality back in schools. Perhaps because you think, wrongly, that everyone loves Christianity, no one will object to your desire to remove a children's book from the public school library. Keep your bigotry to yourself, please.
Tell you what. If you don't like the way public school runs, pull your kid out, home school them, teach them to be intolerant of other ideas, thoughts, religions and customs and then send them out into the world to be good, little, mindless terrorists for Christ. After all, that's what most Islamic nations do (although there, they have their idea of God IN the schools, so there's no need to home-school them). Yes, lady, it's attitudes like yours that cause incidents like the World Trade Center attack and the War on Iraq. If you could keep it to yourself, and they could, too, the world would be a lot more peaceful.
But until you see how attempting to spread your idea of the 'good religious world' to others fucks with the rest of the world, we will always have terrorism - and idiots like you.
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