Five Cities in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Make the Top 100 Harry-est Towns in America List
July 23, 2007 by
Local Mother at Center of Harry Potter Controversy Discusses Her Youth Ministry
Amazon.com has released the results of their "Top 100 Harry-est Towns in America" contest, and 12 cities in Georgia are on the list. Gwinnett County, focus of recent controversy over the books, is home to 5 of them. The contest was based on the number of pre-orders per capita thatFive Cities in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Make the Top 100 Harry-est Towns in America List
Date: July 23, 2007Laura Mallory, the mother who lost a judicial review to have the Potter series removed from county public school shelves last spring, resides in Loganville. Seven other Georgia cities, Decatur, Canton, Woodstock, Dallas, Stone Mountain, Alpharetta, and Marietta, also made the list.
Falls Church, Va., won the contest and will receive a $5,000 gift certificate to Amazon.com. The award will be given to The Mary Riley Styles Public Library Foundation Trust of Falls Church.
An article by Heather Darenberg, entitled, "Potter protester unsure how her story will end," on the front page of the July 23 issue of the Gwinnett Daily Post, addresses Laura Mallory's plans for the future. Although she is considering filing a new case in federal court, at the moment she is concentrating on a youth ministry that she is developing with help from her husband. Mallory believes that the Potter issue led her to this calling.
A great deal of the controversy centers around the Bible, which states, "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead." (Deuteronomy). Mallory cites "11 actual witchcraft occult practices" portrayed in the fantasy books written by J.K. Rowling.
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