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-Mark Morford, SFGate
The Harry Potter series is back on library shelves in the Cedarville School District, following a federal judge's order to give students access to the insanely popular books, and overruling the school board who claimed the books promoted witchcraft and disobedience and sodomy and paganism and too much damn book learnin' and the idea that they can actually buck the goddamn system and defeat evil curmudgeonly uptight ass-clenched black-magic school boards and actually make something of their sad Arkansas lives but only if they get the hell out as soon as humanly possible if not sooner. Cedarville Mayor Beverly Pyle, who was at the school board meeting, said she was tired of the issue. "I just wish it would go away," Pyle said. "I am a Christian ... but I grew up watching 'Bewitched.' I can see both sides." Which is an excellent defense of, of.... wait, I'm sorry, what? Did she really just reference 'Bewitched' as moral and ethical justification for allowing kids to read 'Harry Potter'? I thought so. OK good. This is what we are dealing with. Deep and nuanced indeed are the intellectual and pietistic wellsprings of Arkansas, let us be hereby reminded.
-Mark Morford, SFGate
The Harry Potter series is back on library shelves in the Cedarville School District, following a federal judge's order to give students access to the insanely popular books, and overruling the school board who claimed the books promoted witchcraft and disobedience and sodomy and paganism and too much damn book learnin' and the idea that they can actually buck the goddamn system and defeat evil curmudgeonly uptight ass-clenched black-magic school boards and actually make something of their sad Arkansas lives but only if they get the hell out as soon as humanly possible if not sooner. Cedarville Mayor Beverly Pyle, who was at the school board meeting, said she was tired of the issue. "I just wish it would go away," Pyle said. "I am a Christian ... but I grew up watching 'Bewitched.' I can see both sides." Which is an excellent defense of, of.... wait, I'm sorry, what? Did she really just reference 'Bewitched' as moral and ethical justification for allowing kids to read 'Harry Potter'? I thought so. OK good. This is what we are dealing with. Deep and nuanced indeed are the intellectual and pietistic wellsprings of Arkansas, let us be hereby reminded.
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Date: 2003-04-28 08:45 pm (UTC)D.