United States: School county bans ‘anti-Mormon’ Sherlock Holmes book
17 Aug 2011Local papers in Albemarle County, Virginia, have reported that Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, has been removed from sixth-grade reading lists after a parent complained that it was “our young students’ first inaccurate introduction to an American religion.” In the book, in which a father and daughter are rescued by Mormons on condition they adopt the Mormon faith, Conan Doyle wrote that Mormons were “persecutors of the most terrible description”.
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Jack
Funny how self-righteous religious groups who expect the protection of the state from discrimination are so often the first to censor others.
Apart from anything else, they’ve now virtually guaranteed that their young people will read this book – or did they somehow expect otherwise?
People who burn books tend to end up burning other people too.