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The point for me is that the parents on a tear about Potter have a perfect right to their beliefs and concerns. They aren't trying to impose those beliefs on anyone else. They aren't trying to pass laws against Potter. So, let them be.

From the article:

The American Library Association says there have been attempts in at least 13 states to ban the book from schools and public libraries.

Yes, they can believe whatever they want, but when they start trying to ban books (or burn them, as happened in Pittsburgh last year), it worries me.

I personally do not believe ANYthing said by the American Library Association. They're worse than the NEA.

EVEN IF it were true that some parents tried to get the book banned from libraries, these people are not, never have been organized enough to accomplish that. If they were, Clinton would never have been elected. LOL!

People who look down on people who look down on people......ugh!

The American Library Association says there have been attempts in at least 13 states to ban the book from schools and public libraries.

Yes, they can believe whatever they want, but when they start trying to ban books (or burn them, as happened in Pittsburgh last year), it worries me.

Well, let's be fair. The ALA considers any questioning of the appropriateness of a book (like, for instance, not wanting your sixth grader to read Slaughterhouse 5) to be an attempt to "ban" the book. The ALA is truly more wacko than most Harry Potter critics.

Personally, I simply have not come to the conclusion that Harry Potter measures up to the quality of books my kids should read. We are Christian home-schoolers who believe that our kids' books should teach and reflect what is good and noble.

I don't let them read the Goosebumps trash. I have purchased a paperback copy of the first Potter book, and my wife and I will determine whether it measures up. It probably will not. That doesn't make me a nut, as some of you would insinuate. It makes me a discerning parent.

Yes, they can believe whatever they want, but when they start trying to ban books (or burn them, as happened in Pittsburgh last year), it worries me.

I'm not sure I agree. As long as libraries are funded by tax dollars, tax payers should have some say. And, parents should always have a say in what their children read.

Burning books and preventing them from being published are abhorrent to me, but simply not purchasing them for a library is unfairly categorized as "censorship."

That said, our family is both evangelical and HP fans. My kids know the difference between fantasy and reality -- unlike too many adults (the Clintons among them *g*).

Yes, they can believe whatever they want, but when they start trying to ban books (or burn them, as happened in Pittsburgh last year), it worries me.

You'd think they'd learn something from all the secular inhumanists bitching about where they can and cannot put crosses and memorial creches.