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Bush Administration Officials Objected To Medal Of Freedom For J.K. Rowling Because Harry Potter Encourages Witchcraft

by @ 4:51 pm on September 24, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, George W Bush, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

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.

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