Conservatives Urge Ban on 'Harry Potter' Over Witchcraft, Homosexuality

CinciBaptist »

Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:39 am Agree: 8   Disagree: 4

May I just state that I think the idea of banning these books from children that because of them have sought out other books to read because the Harry Potter series showed them how to use their imagination. In a world where there is so stress on using the power of thought and creativity to entertain oneself a book that can draw a child that would other wise be playing some mind numbing video game....Heavan forbid. As far as promoting the ideas of witchcraft and the occult if you are worried about your children being unable to distinguish between reality and a fictional story then you have more to worry about than what your children are reading. I would be more worried about how they will be able to function in an everyday world where they will have to make decisions for themselves. If you are worried that your children will be influenced by these stories then have a discussion with your children about what is reality and what is a story.
As far as Rowling "outing" Dumbledore promoting Homosexuality and pushing it on the children. Homosexuality is not something that can be forced on someone. It is how you are born you can't help who you love and Dumbledore does nothing to do with your child and their sexual orientation.
Those of you who sit on your high horse and talk about Harry Potter as though he is the definition of all that is wrong with this world let me ask you this...

Are you capable of forming a thought by yourself or do you instead rely on those of your pastors and ministers and evangelists telling us to take these books away from our children because they might be influenced in a negative way? Would it not make more sense to have faith in our ability to teach our children fact from fiction and right from wrong? Raise up our religious heros as well as those fictional heros that show children that it is ok to be different and create worlds of make believe. Why must it always be so black and white when this is a topic with so many shades of gray.