Retard news: Georgia woman wants 'evil' Harry Potter banned

[Grimmlok]

A suburban county that sparked a public outcry when its libraries temporarily eliminated funding for Spanish-language fiction is now being asked to ban Harry Potter books from its schools.
Laura Mallory, a mother of four, told a hearing officer for the Gwinnett County Board of Education on Tuesday that the popular fiction series are an "evil" attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion.

Board of Education attorney Victoria Sweeny said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban "Macbeth" and "Cinderella."

"There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," she said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.

In June, the county's library board eliminated the $3,000 that had been set aside to buy Spanish-language fiction in the coming fiscal year. One board member said the move came after some residents objected to using taxpayer dollars to entertain readers who might be illegal immigrants.

Days later, the board reversed its decision amid accusations that the move was anti-Hispanic.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/04/D8KHQMH80.html

Firstly, last time i checked Wicca was A HELLUVA LOT MORE PEACEFUL RELIGION THAN YOUR BULLSHIT JESUSCULT.

ahem.

Secondly, who the fuck are you to dictate what other people get to read? Wtf is wrong with you jesusnuts that you have to control everything around you?

GET OVER YOURSELF YOU FAT SLUT.

[Banshee]

This person obviously has NO idea what Wicca is about.

[buttmunch]

the move came after some residents objected to using taxpayer dollars to entertain readers who might be illegal immigrants.

Are they fucking serious? Even if--and that's a big if--illegal immigrants were reading books from the library, wouldn't that be considered a good thing? Good to see good christian values hard at work.

[twitchy]

"Board of Education attorney Victoria Sweeny said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban "Macbeth" and "Cinderella.""

And "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

Cow hasn't even read the books. " She said she had done much of her research online, reading a variety of Christian message boards and Harry Potter fan sites." " She admitted that she has not read the book series partially because “they’re really very long and I have four kids.”(Aw, boo hoo.) “I’ve put a lot of work into what I’ve studied and read. I think it would be hypocritical for me to read all the books, honestly. I don’t agree with what’s in them. I don’t have to read an entire pornographic magazine to know it’s obscene,” Mallory said. http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/ind...ange_well_id=2

Meanwhile, there is also another attempt to ban Fahrenheit 451 by some inbred mouthbreather who also has not read the book because "It's just all kinds of filth,". http://www.hcnonline.com/site/news.c...d=532215&rfi=6

[buttmunch]

And the plot thickens: Apparently banning Harry Potter will limit school shootings, which makes no sense at all since Harry Potter is read the world over yet the US is the only country with any real problem in this area. Hey Laura, you crazy freak, think you might want to put that energy into banning guns? Dumb cow.

A woman who maintains that the Harry Potter books are an attempt to teach children witchcraft is pushing for the second time to have them banned from school libraries.



Laura Mallory, a mother of four from the Atlanta suburb of Loganville, told a Georgia Board of Education officer that the books by British author J.K. Rowling, sought to indoctrinate children as Wiccans, or practitioners of religious witchcraft.

Referring to the recent rash of deadly assaults at schools, Mallory said books that promote evil - as she claims the Potter ones do - help foster the kind of culture where school shootings happen.

That would not happen if students instead read the Bible, Mallory said.

She added that the books were harmful to children who are unable to differentiate between reality and fantasy.

The children, she said, try to imitate Harry Potter and cast spells on classmates.

"They're not educationally suitable and have been shown to be harmful to some kids," Mallory said.

She argued that teachers do not assign other religious books like the Bible as student reading.

It was Mallory's second public campaign against the popular fiction series, after trying to get her son's elementary school to ban the books in August 2005.

Victoria Sweeny, an attorney representing the Gwinnett County Board of Education in Atlanta's eastern suburbs, which had ruled against her in May, said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban mainstays like "Macbeth" and "Cinderella."

"There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," she said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.

Sweeny said parents, teachers and scholars have found them a good tool to stimulate children's imagination and encourage them to read.

The hearing officer presiding over the appeal will make a recommendation to the state board, which will then decide the case at its meeting in December.

Mallory is appealing after the Gwinnett County school board ruled in favour of the books.

Wiccans consider themselves witches, pagans or neo-pagans, and say their religion is based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1811

And imagine her poor kids...being known as the one with the bat-shit insane mother. Someone call child services, 'cause I can guess what they'll do in a few years when they get thier hands on a gun.

[Grimmlok]

Oh heavens to betsy, can't have a belief that expouses environmentalism and mother earth...

Does she think native americans are evil too, the ones that still follow their traditional beliefs in the creator and ecological balance?

[twitchy]

She's the sort who equates non-Christian with anti-Christian. Therefore, to follow her reasoning, native americans are indeed evil.

[Grimmlok]

Someone please lock that woman in a library so she can read something other than her musty sky fairy storybook.

[buttmunch]

*chucks 'Portnoy's Complaint' at LoonyLaura's head*

Well, that should give her something to chew on.

[mella]

Sometimes I feel the urgend need to "crucio" my family . Sad thing is , it never works. I so hoped Harry Potter would teach me how to rule the world

[drama_queen]

I am a christian and my kids love Harry.We have all the books and the movies.Nothing wrong with Harry.

[Lobelia]

Same here. My kids have read them all.

[Grimmlok]

well you realize that they'll start shooting up schools right

cuz like.. harry potter makes you do that.

[Lobelia]

I've accepted that. Of course, as competitive as things are these days, my kids will only shoot up schools in the very best way, so I've purchased state of the art firearms for them, and they practice with a private shooting coach at the firing range 3 afternoons a week.

[Zee]

Did you buy them semiautomatic weapons? Have my first grader shooting trap to get him ready for high school.