Reply #31: This article has it all wrong

[Shadder]

I cannot believe how many errors were made in this story. First of all they seem to have missed the fact that she was presenting her case to a hearing officer who will present his recommendations to the state school board and not the Gwinnett BOE. This follows a media review committee of parents, teachers and community members that ruled against her in three separate challenges. She then appealed to the school system; its review panel heard her appeals on two different dates and agreed with the school committee. She then took her appeal to the next level, the Gwinnett County school board, and was given a formal hearing in April. Three weeks later, acting on the strong recommendation of Su Ellen Bray, a retired DeKalb educator who conducted the hearing, the Gwinnett school board voted unanimously to keep the Harry Potter books in the school libraries - with harsh words from at least one board member about censorship.

They also seem to have missed her real reason for attempting this. According to her “I think the anti-Christian bias — it’s just got to stop,” Mallory said. “And if we don’t say something, we’ll just keep getting pushed out of the schools. And I pay taxes, too, and I think that gives me a voice to speak out about this.”

They also missed that fact that Mallory openly admits to never reading the books for herself, but she read enough of them to determine that they were evil. She was quoted as saying "I've put a lot of work into what I've studied and read. I think it would be hypocritical for me to read all the books, honestly. I don't agree with what's in them. I don't have to read an entire pornographic magazine to know it's obscene,"

They also don't mention the fact that she was openly pushing to have them replaced by the Left Behind series in the schools.

Sigh, just one more example of that liberal media in action I guess...