This Little Piggy Was Banned from Market by Pam Meister

A year or so ago when a mother from Georgia tried to get Gwinnett County schools to remove Harry Potter books from their shelves because they were an “’evil’ attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion,” she became a national laughingstock.

Book banning has a nasty connotation for many, as it evokes images of Nazi book burnings as that party came to power in the 1930s. It’s one thing for a parent to guide her child’s reading choices; it’s another thing entirely when she attempts to keep a book she disapproves of out of the hands of everyone else.

Part of the reason the would-be book banner in Georgia was ridiculed was that she is a Christian. Christians are on the short list of groups that one can still openly mock and treat with derision. Why? My guess it’s because Christians, while they may make their voices heard when something (like the Harry Potter series) clashes with their belief system, limit their weapons to exactly that - their voices are all they use. When an outrageous insult toward Christians is perpetrated in the name of art or literature, there is no violence, no rioting in the streets, no threats to make those who insult Christianity pay.

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