“Could it be Satan?!”
“I think the anti-Christian bias — it’s just got to stop.”
The next challenge Harry Potter will face has nothing to do with horcruxes, Hogwart’s or the half-blood prince. Instead, it will be a group of concerned parents looking to take the series off the shelves of all Gwinnett County Public Schools.
Laura Mallory of Loganville filed an appeal last week to get the best-selling book series out of the schools’ media centers.
Mallory wrote on her appeal forms that she was objecting to the books because of their “evil themes, witchcraft, demonic activity, murder, evil blood sacrifice, spells and teaching children all of this.”
Jessica Grimes, a 10-year-old student at Duncan Creek Elementary School, faxed a letter to the school system in support of the books series.
“The books never at any time turned me into a wizard or witch,” Grimes said. “I go to church every Sunday, go to Sunday school and never at any time did I think the books are true.”
[Mallory] admitted that she has not read the book series partially because “they’re really very long and I have four kids.”
“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.”
Real-Life Church Lady Laura Mallory
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I’m actually glad to see this. I was just thinking that it’s been too long since someone from the Christian “Far-Wrong” shot themselves in the foot by trying to ban a book.
You go, girl!
“She turned me into a newt!”
“a newt?”
“I got better.”
Maybe I could take her more seriously IF she had read the series, which then would prove she CAN READ. Wonder what MAN put her up to this….teehee
OMG! Are you kidding me, laddy? It’s hypocritical if you DON’T read them…because you don’t know what’s in them. Duh!
Breath…breath…
Just how any sort of “research” into a given text doesn’t include reading the text, I just can’t fathom.
Is this worse than removing GOD from the Pledge? If the nation must be Godless then it should also be witchcraftless.
Peter, ignorance does not equal hypocrisy.
Now it would be hypocritical if she let her own children read the books while she was trying to ban them so that other children couldn’t.
“I think the anti-Christian bias — it’s just got to stop.”
I find this so friggin hilarious. Exactly where is this anti-Christian bias?! There are no atheist politicians. There are no atheist newscasters. There are no tele-atheists filling our airways with pleadings for more and more money to support their lavish lifestyles. Towns and cities are not filled with tax-free atheist buildings. We’re not subjected to atheist “street preachers” trying to convert us on our way to work.
Atheists make up less than 10% of the US population. Christians make up the overwhelming majority. Can someone explain to me how Christians feel as if there is some sort of persecution against them.
The argument against political correctness used to be that minorities simply were too sensitive to perceived injustices and trivialities. Now the exact same argument could be used against the Christians. They complete dominate our population, media, our politicians, our cities and towns, our culture, but yet they demand to be a protected minority.
It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so darned sad.
She’s not hypocritical, just a whackjob.
She’s kinda hot.
“Is this worse than removing GOD from the Pledge? If the nation must be Godless then it should also be witchcraftless.”
“God” was only added to the pledge during the cold war. If our nation could survive a civil war and two world wars without “God” being in our pledge, why is it going to suddenly fall apart without it now?!
And if you want to live in a theocracy, why don’t you move to Iran? I’m sure you’d fit in real well there.
The last time people went after witches they were found to be dead wrong.
“She’s kinda hot. “
I agree. I tried to find other pictures of her on google images but couldn’t. She’s appears to look hot in the one above.
“don’t kid yourself. there’s as many atheist politicians as are in the general populace.”
You completely proved my point and for that I thank you. Where is the Christian bias if nonbelievers have to pretend to be Christian in order to get elected?!
So she hates the stories but hasn’t even read one of them. She has read what others have written about them, gee I wonder what her sources were. Maybe her sources were a little biased. Just maybe her sources have a political agenda. Naw, couldn’t be.
Lady, the books are fiction. The library has them in the fiction section, the author says they are fiction, all the children who read the books recognize them as total fiction. There aren’t any claims that the books are even partially based on anything real.
She just wants her political agenda in the news. Sad, very sad.
She admitted that she has not read the book series partially because “they’re really very long and I have four kids.”
This is what she said in the article. Seriously? haha And this is why parents don’t watch what their kids watch, eat, read, or play. At some point in time, parents have to take responsibility and Christians have to get over their “woe is me” complex. Ever tell a Christian you’re an aetheist? They look at you like you are the devil himself trying to kill Christianity. It’s kind of sad actually. Maybe Christians should stop their ‘anti-humanity’ bias.
The children, the children…
Anyone can come along and insert their favorite religion, movies, ideology, prejudiced world-view, politics, sexual preference, car company, diet habits, war toys etc. into those poor little innocent minds. Well, maybe it does happen sometimes, but I remember being dragged off to church by determined adults and then wondering “Why isn’t God speaking to us directly from the pulpit, instead of that man standing there? And why can’t I understand what he’s talking about?”
Harry Potter. Tilting at windmills, as usual.
“they’re really very long and I have four kids.”
Then why doesnt she try doing some parenting, perhaps reading them to her kids and teaching them her views, instead of trying to censer the other sources of learning that are out there.
This is just sad. I am a Christian (Yeah, a born-again). I LOVE the Harry Potter books.
The irony of this is: Rowling is a Christian, and the books are literally full of Christian themes. Don’t believe me? Harry Potter “dies” and is “resurrected” in every one of the books that has come out. HP is a type of Christ. One of the main themes is the power of love against evil, and that is exactly where the books are Christian in emphasis.
So: it’s sad to see Christians warring against a book that actually affirms their faith.
“there’s some anti-Christian bias to be found here and there in the media”
I agree that such bias is possible. But the books of Harry Potter are not such examples of bias and that’s what makes this so absurd.
If this book attacked Christians I could understand the bias. But it does not attack Christianity. It is devoid of any mention of Christianity. And that’s the problem. To Christians, if something does not praise Christianity, it is AGAINST Christianity.
Can you imagine how ludicrous it would be for Jesse Jackson to argue that any book, TV show, or movie that does not specifically mention race is inherently racist?! Christians such as Miss Mallory would be laughing at him. So why aren’t those same Christians laughing at this?!
This action by Miss Mallory is not about stopping attacks on Christianity. It’s about ensuring that every facet of our culture praises Christianity. In other words, it’s all about being treated as a special class, or even worse, turning our country into a theocracy!
“She admitted that she has not read the book series partially because “they’re really very long and I have four kids.”
I wonder when she found time to do all this work to try to get these books off of the shelves.
“So: it’s sad to see Christians warring against a book that actually affirms their faith.”
I have no doubt that in our political and religious climate that C. S. Lewis’ books would be banned too if they had been written recently.
#21 Kim, excellent. I have a hunch you’re in the minority who can also find actual Christian themes like love and peace in the Bible as well, rather than just looking for prohibitions or commandments that can be used as weapons against perceived enemies.
You can’t see it, but my hat is off to you.
I am opposed to the Hary Potter books… not because of the witchcraft/wizardry aspect – if so, we would have to ban Lord of the Rings & Narnia – but because I don’t think that they are not particularly good books.
The central character sends all the wrong messages (Harry _repeatedly_ breaks the rules, and rarely has to deal with the consequences of his actions – often he gets _rewarded_).
Harry is not a very good role model, but that is precisely what he has become. The whole thing is a flight of fancy – a power trip for kids, in which most of the adults are either evil or stupid. Power is wielded without wisdom or responsibility, without thought to the consequences of one’s actions – which is the main difference between HP and LOTR.
I’ve read all of the books released so far. Wouldn’t pay for them though – that’s what libraries are for. IMO HP is for little kiddies who can’t handle real literature. The whole thing is like the literary equivalent of fast food – it feels good, but it does not really edify or nourish.
The writing is nothing much to shout about (Excrucio!) either.
If Harry Potter is so evil, why does a Catholic Preist love reading it so much and even does a podcast on the christian meanings behind the books.
I agree with her. Thats why i don’t read the bible. All the incest, murders, magic and smiting going on. Plus I’m not sure I want to worship a god that rules through fear and is so insecure he needs to be constantly reminded how all powerful he is.
re:#10
She is hot. I’d like to give her the best 37 seconds of blasphemy she’s ever had!
First off: she’s nutjob. Second off: I’m not a Christian or religious at all, but I wonder if “Jebus” appeared tomorrow who would get punished? The sheep (people who just do and think what their told) and the opressors (people proving what to think and do) or the free-thinking people (come to their own conclusions and really try to be good) who actually try to make the world a better place?
I vote that the Potter books be removed from the public schools, so long as they are promptly replaced with Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” series.
jebus – not reading material that you disagree with, and then attempting to discredit that material that you didnt read seems a LITTLE bit asinine to me – but I guess thats ok for the close-minded mudsucking religious types…