Laura Mallory, Famed Harry De-Potterer, Called To The Ministry

[DeSwiss]

Laura Mallory refuses to go gently into that good night. She's decided that 15 minutes of fame may be enough for some people, but not her. She has stated that she's "been called" to the ministry, which usually means God's been talking again. Of course in her case, having come in such close proximity to all those occult influences in her fight to rid the world of witches, sex, wizards, drugs and sexual perversion she ought to check with God just to be sure. Because it could be a spell cast by Harry....

Mother who fought against Harry Potter books finds new calling

The Associated Press
Posted on Sun, Jul. 22, 2007

LOGANVILLE, Ga. --The mother who fought to ban Harry Potter books from her children's suburban Atlanta school district said her work on the case has allowed her to find her calling - ministering to children and young adults. "I never understood why I was involved with Harry Potter in the first place," said Laura Mallory. "I never expected all of that to happen, but I'm called, and my husband is called to this generation. We want to see them delivered from drugs, alcohol, the occult and sexual perversion."

Mallory says the books "open the door to the occult and the demonic," saying there are 11 actual witchcraft occult practices in the books, including spell casting, numerology, spirit channeling and astrology. Mallory began challenging the use of the books in 2005 after she found they were being taught in her son's classroom at J.C. Magill Elementary School. In May, Superior Judge Ronnie Batchelor upheld a decision by the Georgia Board of Education to let the fiction series remain in Gwinnett County libraries. The education board had supported local school officials.

Mallory said she may consider filing a new case in federal court but has been spending the summer with her four children and working with her husband on developing a youth ministry instead. She said she never expected the media attention that followed her protest against the books. "I think I've actually handled it surprisingly well," she said. "It hasn't really bothered me. I knew I was speaking the truth."

http://www.macon.com/220/story/95127.html

*** - Been called to the ministry has she? Surprise, surprise. So she never understood what she was doing (which means no one did). But this means that she was speaking the truth about something she didn't understand. She sounds almost like Bush. Because he doesn't know what he's doing either, but always speaks lies.

Well, I wish her luck in her new godly endeavor. So here's to hoping that she has the same level of success in her new venture of ministering to kids and young adults, as she had in ridding the world of Harry Potter books.

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. Petunia Umbridge has ministry envy.

No doubt she'll write a compelling series for kids, all about being obedient and boring. That's a recipe for a bestseller, right there.

[DeSwiss]

4. Petunia Umbridge!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

2. oh!

I thought the Ministry of Magic had summoned her.

[DeSwiss]

5. Shhhhh....

....don't tell her it wasn't the REAL GOD® or we'll never get rid of her.

[villager]

3. against sexual perversion? That rules out electoral office as a Republican!

n/t

[DeSwiss]

6. That rule was secretly revised....

...so now to be an elected Republican all you have to do is SAY that you're against sexual perversion.

And by sexual perversion I don't mean adult diapering. That's was also changed and is now considered "normal sexual activity."

[Warren DeMontague]

7. There's plenty of money in being a preachy, uptight, moralizing fuck in this country.

[DeSwiss]

9. When I pulled up that pic....

...the glass of milk next to my keyboard curdled. Geesh, you oughta warn a guy....

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Sorry!

At least it wasn't this one:

[DeSwiss]

15. Okay now, that was just uncalled for!

[regnaD kciN]

12. What a Muggle...!

:crazy:

[zehnkatzen]

8. What God Wants, God Gets, I guess...

...if what God wants is yet one more self-righteous, sanctimonious, snotty self-made minister in America.

We could have been number one in science, technology, peace...no, we had to be number one in Christianists.

It's enough to make one think 'karma' isn't just a cute word.

[DeSwiss]

10. The only thing she's proven so far....

...is that she's no match for an imaginary boy-wizard.

Of course that's clearly more than enough credentials to become a Christian preacher....

[Richard Steele]

11. So she'll switch to not reading the BIBLE while telling everyone all about it?

It's a lateral move.

[piedmont]

13. She never even read the books.

Couldn't find a news article, but I did find a few blog entries, like this one: http://firstfolio.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html
"Mallory says she hadn’t read the book because they’re “too long,” and she would feel like a bigot for trying to ban something she had actually read. Also since none of her children have read the books, her research comes from “Christian” sources on Harry Potter."