More bizarre revelations from former White House speechwriter Matt Latimer’s new book:
Latimer writes that administration officials objected to giving author J.K. Rowling the Presidential Medal of Freedom because her writing “encouraged witchcraft” (p. 201):
This was the same sort of narrow thinking that led people in the White House to actually object to giving the author J.K. Rowling a presidential medal because the Harry Potter books encouraged withcraft.
This sounds like something out of the same strange Christianist mindset that considers Halloween satanic.
September 24th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
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