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

windrider »

Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:59 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

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

windrider »

Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:56 am Agree: 17   Disagree: 6

Regardless of how Rowlings PERCEIVED Dumbledore, there's not the slightest, vaguest hint of homosexuality in the Harry Potter books. Hogwarts is only a FICTIONAL setting, but the VALUES in the books are those of goodness, friendship, loyalty and sacrifice for the greater good. That the books do not EXPLICITLY reference God or Satan does not mean that they are immoral anti-religious works.

I presume that you folks are just as diligent about making sure your children never read Aesop's Fables or Grimm's Fairy Tales, Greek or Roman mythology, and I'm sure you diligently protect them from all those Disney films where magic abounds. I'm sure it's difficult for you to live in the modern world where the mentally ill are not deemed as possessed, and lepers are not spiritually unclean, and adulterers aren't stoned to death, and "witches" are not summarily executed, and the world no longer views a people as noble who rampage through the countryside in a military campaign of conquest where "we left no thing alive" or where very young girl children were given to the soldiers as spoils of war.

So by all means, boycott the Harry Potter books, the Disney movies, and everything else that offends your 3500 year old religious beliefs and values. The rest of us will continue to read, think, ponder, and continue to grow in wisdom and understanding.