Everytime some nutbar in my town suggests banning a book from the library, I go in and suggest to end their subscription to the anti-abortion magazine they get. I think we should be scaring them with the implications of censorship.

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Laura hasn’t even READ the books, apparently she’s just skimmed through them. I mean, come on… This is what I call judging a book by its cover. Doesn’t she know that Harry Potter is NOT a book where there’s a bunch of kids sitting in a classroom waving wands? There’s so much more to these books than everyone else thinks. It’s a tale of Good vs Evil, and Harry is GOOD. Laura has no right to stop other people reading Harry Potter just because SHE personally doesn’t think they should. She has the right to complain, but she can’t stop people from doing what they want to do. Let her do that to her children only if it’s so important for her. She can tell them not to read the books and that’s that. But everyone else has the right to read Harry Potter and a woman like Laura Mallory should and will not stop them. Those books are amazing. And I would not be surprised if one day her children pick up a Harry Potter book and read it and love it. This is of course when they come of age and start deciding things for themselves, and she will have no right to stop even them either.
Harry Potter has encouraged more than 3 million kids worldwide to read books and find a new world within them. Harry Potter is a wonderful series dealing with courage, bravery, friendship, love, trust, and how to deal with death. There is certainatly no relation to the Wicca culture in these books. (Mallory said the books were encouraging Wicca culture.) I am going to the party tonight for the 7th Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows (like the title, Mallory?) and I am going to have fun… I feel sorry for the kids in Georgia, not being able to read Harry Potter during school hours. Children do not just pick up a bible and read, nowadays… It would be a bit awkward and maybe even stereotypical to walk down the corridors with the Bible in your hands, and people making faces. I say, there needs to be a bit of magic in the world, fiction or real.
Long live Harry Potter, WHO HAS TOUCHED MORE HEARTS AND SOULS OF PEOPLE THAN LAURA MALLORY HAS.

Wow, the stupidity of people is beyond description. Somebody please tell Laura Mallory that Harry Potter is a work of Fiction. Meaning it’s not real. I think most children can tell the different, why can’t she. It doesn’t teach anyone witchcraft, I never once saw J.K show us how to actually do a magical spell. So to Laura, and anyone who believes what she is doing is just, maybe it’s time you open you eyes to the fact a work of fiction won’t destroy the world.

Dennis: it’s time you open you eyes to the fact a work of fiction won’t destroy the world.

Yeah, the closest any fictional book has come to ending the world would have to be the bible…

*hem hem* has anyone read Inherit the Wind? It’s a book/play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. It talks about banning the study of “evil-ution” from schools. Yet the prosecution has not even read Charles Darwin. But they say that evolution is bad. this bs is still going on today but we’re actually aware of it now. this applies now to Harry Potter books. you don’t know if something is bad or not unless you’ve read it. and if you assume something without reading it you shouldn’t go around preaching it. Point made? I think so.

You’ve got a good thought, Diana, but it isn’t absolutely necessary to have read a book to conclude that it is BS.  For instance I feel pretty secure saying that the Koran is dangerous nonsense even though i have not read it.  Sometimes a summary really is enough.  But I am not calling for censorship of the Koran.

Harry Potter and Origin Of Species are in somewhat different categories.  But even if evolutionary theory has terrible consequences, it is still correct.  The essence of censorship is to say that a thing should never be read if it offends, and that really is dangerous nonsense.

The most ironic detail about Laura Mallory’s idiocy, is that she doesn’t want children to study the religious ideas of Wickans, but would rather them study The Bible.
I think it is humorous when somebody trys to put down ones religion, by saying that there religion is correct.
I pity the ignorant.

The world doesnt revolve around you. No one cares what you want. You dont like the book, tough shit dont read it. Its as simple as that. The bible and the school should be seperated. Not everyone has the same religion. You want you kid to learn the bible at school then send them to christian school. There problem solved. Get over it.

What i’m saying is that you can think and say what you will but if you haven’t learned yourself in an area that you are fighting against no one is going to listen to you. all we are going to say is that you are a fool.

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