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Harry Potter, Book banning, and hypocrisy...

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Zhimbo
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05-29-2007 3:29 PM

Story:
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http://news.yahoo.com/...20070529/ap_on_re_us/potter_protest
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I can't believe there isn't an approriate open thread for this, but I can't find it.
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While it's certainly old news that fundies don't like Harry Potter books and want them out of school libraries, I love the remarkably direct presentation of hypocrisy at the end of the article:
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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.
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"I have a dream that God will be welcomed back in our schools again," Mallory said. "I think we need him."
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Zhimbo
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05-30-2007 8:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 10 by Tusko
05-30-2007 8:32 AM

They simply can't continue the "His Dark Materials" films with toned-down religion. I'd be very surprised if the other two books ever make it to film. If you take the "God" out of the "War on God", it isn't going to make much sense.
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BTW, Northern Lights is known as The Golden Compass in the U.S.
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Zhimbo
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05-31-2007 12:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 14 by Jon
05-31-2007 5:41 AM

Re: dance the May Pole.
More lucrative, and yet utterly irrelevant to this thread.
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Are TWO ongoing threads on Prostitution not enough for you?
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Edited by Zhimbo, : No reason given.
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