Catholic School Bans Harry Potter
I think I’m going to create a new category for absurd news… or maybe, “This is news?”
Article from The Boston Globe about a Catholic School that banned the Harry Potter books. Apparently it’s caused a flap with some of the parents, and now of course, since Harry’s a media darling, it’s causing a bigger flap with the media.
Come on, folks. Get real. Harry’s a wizard, the books have occult themes (regardless of whether you feel they promote anything “real” or not), and churches really do take a stand against this sort of thing.
If parents don’t like it, they have the option of either a) sending their children to a secular private or public school, or b) purchasing the books for reading pleasure at home, or c) getting them from the public library.
People need to get over this notion that Christian (including Catholic) schools are some sort of “anything goes” free speech zone. They’re not. (neither are secular/public schools, but that’s for another post) The adults-in-charge must make wise choices regarding materials students should see - and if the adults-paying-for-little-Johnny-to-be-there don’t like it, send him elsewhere instead of complaining.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Goodness, now I’m going to comment in my own blog. Just refreshed FoxNews and there’s the headline on this. Whoever wrote it is … well.
“Catholic pastor in Massachusetts bans series from school library, claims ‘moral authority’ to ’spiritually protect’ students”
Shall we tick it off?
Um, last I checked, Catholics don’t have “pastors”, they have priests - but that doesn’t stop the man from having pastoral authority and moral authority (semantics shemantics) indeed to yes! imagine that! Spiritually protect students. That would be what he’s there for…
Bah.