WTF, over.

[ebonlock]

I, uh...well, this sort of speaks for itself I guess:

But this installment of Harry Potter introduces a new theme — homosexuality. In Harry Potter and the Lavender Brigade, we discover that the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is expanding its curriculum base to provide mandatory training in homosexuality for all of its recruits. Harry discovered in Book One that he was born with witchcraft in his blood. Now, recent discoveries show that the same students born with the gift of magic also possess a genetic predisposition toward homosexuality. With this in mind, the goal of Hogwarts is to teach its students the proper and moral way to be homosexual witches. Students must learn about safety, monogamy, and even social etiquette.


Somebody has clearly stumbled upon too much slash fic on those internets...

You really need to read the rest of this newsletter and check out the site's catalog of good clean Christian toys that you should be buying instead of these gay Harry Potter books which will turn your kids into pagan fags.

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[chaos-rose.livejournal.com]

My, that's a mighty-whitey site - not a doll of color to be found anywhere - even the Sacajawea doll is caucasian-featured. I guess that a 'beautiful girlhood' is limited to little white girls.

*cynical*

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

My, that's a mighty-whitey site - not a doll of color to be found anywhere - even the Sacajawea doll is caucasian-featured. I guess that a 'beautiful girlhood' is limited to little white girls.

My first thought when I checked out the site was, "Wow, this is what all toy stores would look like if the Nazis had won WWII." It's an Aryan fantasyland, isn't it?

[ellid.livejournal.com]

They sell Elsie Dinsmore books.

Elsie.

DINSMORE.


I didn't think those pieces of sentimental Victoriana were still in print, but I guess I was wrong....

[rhi-silverflame.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I would be more surprised and/or confused if I hadn't grown up in a family where coming to these conclusions did not, in fact, involve a leap of logic of any kind. (I still love to tell the story of how I used to get lectured on the evil of idolatry by several aunts and uncles because I had a Debbie Gibson t-shirt -- shut up, I was ten -- that I wore all the time.)

But still. WTF?!?

You gotta admit, though, there's a nugget of yummy irony there, with the "genetic predisposition toward homosexuality" bit.

I laugh. Because I will cry if I don't.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

You gotta admit, though, there's a nugget of yummy irony there, with the "genetic predisposition toward homosexuality" bit.

Another beautiful example of the paradoxical nature of the wingnutty mind (such as it is). Two contrary concepts can co-exist because rational thought is thrown out the window and hardcore ideology embraced like a favorite teddy bear.

I laugh. Because I will cry if I don't.

I find myself doing that a lot these days...

[eska-rina.livejournal.com]

*sniff*

Why do I always go off to read these articles, when I know that all they will do is making me sad over this world stupidity :(

...I didn't help that I of course had to look at the rest of the site, including the Girlhood part.

HOW CAN PEOPLE BE THIS STUPID?

*goes off to cry*

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

I believe the word would be "Huh?"

I ought to write to them and tell them that it's not Lavender Brigade, but Lavender Brown, and that she (SHE, mind you) hooks up with Ron, not Harry. Oh, these people.

See how I make dumb jokes when I should be tearing my hair out? See?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

See how I make dumb jokes when I should be tearing my hair out? See?

Personally I think it's a much healthier response, you get to keep your hair and benefit from all the positive effects of laughter on the body. It's win-win :)

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Wow. He even condemns that wickedly immoral author C.S. Lewis. He is smoking the *good* crack.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Wow. He even condemns that wickedly immoral author C.S. Lewis. He is smoking the *good* crack.

In so very many ways, yeah. :)

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Doesn't he know that it is immoral not to share the good crack?

wwcwd? (what would christian wingnuts do?)

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

I'm torn as to which was my favorite part, really. I'd thought it was the bit about how "alternate reality fantasies" are the work of the devil (and immediately sent off the article to Kit, who's sequestered herself for several days to work on the sequel to Urban Shaman, which is clearly satan's own manuscript, with pagan gods appearing in our world), or maybe how T.H. White was satanic (though she condemned Disney's The Sword in the Stone instead of the books), but it's gotta be this, in the end:

"You can dress up cute little fairies in bonnets, but the minute they attempt to cast spells or invoke supernatural powers reserved to God, they become moral criminals."

I lurve my shelves and shelves full of moral criminality, is all I can say, and am all the more gleeful that I'm giving my (ostensibly Christian-raised) cousin fairy stuff for her birthday.