[Antoninus]

Where does it end? First Rowling and then Capote and Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal? Do you ban your children from listening to Elton John? How about Tchaikovsky and Copeland? No "Nutcracker" or "Rodeo"? Do Disney's "Lion King" and "Fantasia" become prohibited? At what point does it become a danger?

It becomes a danger when an author/artist writes something ostensibly for children to read that inserts their pernicious, vulgar, and insipid worldview into my kids lives.

I've never read Tennessee Williams. All the works of Gore Vidal and Truman Capote could be accidentally dropped in the sewer and the world would be no poorer. Elton John is a hack who writes trite pop ditties that will be utterly forgotten in 50 years.

As for Copeland, he didn't come out and say later that he was in love with Billy the Kid, nor did Tchaikovsky rename his work Romeo and Julio.

If you can't see the difference between that and what Rowling did, I can't help you.

[darkangel82]

Elton John is a hack who writes trite pop ditties that will be utterly forgotten in 50 years.

50? It won't take that long, but then again pop "music" is forgettable anyway.