4.1.4 Religious banning/Creating themed groups in catalogue

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Sean Dwyer <ewe2 at a...> wrote:
> Looking over this category (avoiding Weasley!), I find there are a 
couple of
> problems with it:
> 
> 1. The Beckhorn Affair started off a general thread about 
censorship not
> appropriate to the cat. Where is this stuff to go if we don't have 
a category
> for it? The same with much of the discussion about the anti-HP CNN 
report.
> Perhaps a PC criticism category?
> 
> 2. Somehow a lot of Stouffer material ended up here. It's going 
where it
> belongs.
> 

This section (4.1.4) currently resides in section 4 under a general 
heading of 'controversies', along with the sub-thread 4.1.4.1 
Abanes/Harry Potter & The Bible (which you should skim through at the 
same time). I was particularly careful to preserve these two threads 
intact, because although the topic of censorship in general is OT, 
the application here, ie that HP should be banned because of it's 
supposed occult and generally 'immoral' content, lead to some very 
good debate on what the books were about.

Together, I think these two threads are not only a matter of HPfGU 
historical record, but help to make sense of where people are coming 
from in some of the other meta theme categories. Also, some cultural 
sensitivity here, Sean. The Americans, in particular, are far more 
exercised about this stuff than most other countries, and not only 
make up the majority of HPfGU membership, but will probably be 
genuinely interested to read old discussions of this sort - the 
issues are as live as ever in the US, as far as I can judge.

I also have a further proposal - I would like to see these two 
sections moved up to section 1 together with the other religious 
topics, so they make a themed section, which might look like this:

1.1.1 Good vs Evil
1.1.1.1 Religious influences [from all denominations]
1.1.1.2 Wicca [& Paganism ??]
1.1.1.3 Religious banning [combined Beckhorn & Abanes threads]
1.1.1.4 Redemption [general posts on the theme]
1.1.1.5 LAMBASTING [about not alienating Muggles -may not belong here]

Increasingly, as we go through this edit process, we need to see the 
categories not in isolation, but in themed groups.

Therefore, please don't start rejecting without these sort of 
considerations (a general plea - not just Sean!)

I am going to be posting a series of suggestions on how we rethink 
some categories, and move some things around to achieve better 
coherence.

Carolyn