A book-banning giggle, this time with site included...

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 13965

Amanda says:

> For some reason, this makes me think of that quote from someone--
Dave
> Barry? I think, along the lines of [That whole Tinky-Winky (the 
purple teletubbie) is
> gay thing, for those of you with no children]
> "If God decides to reveal his truth
> to a person on earth, it will not be a televangelist with big hair, 
and
> it will not concern the sexual orientation of a character on a
> children's program." 

Nitpicker Alert!

I think you are mixing 2 quotes.  I just happen to have here a gen-u-
ine list o Dave Barry quotes [rustles papers] and he said:

"If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of 
its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He WILL 
NOT use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle."

-- Dave Barry, # 16 of "Sixteen Things That Took Me 50 Years to 
Learn", from Dave Barry Turns 50

Although Dave B. as well as many others have commented on the idiocy 
of religious types who worry about things like Tinky-Winkys sexual 
orientation.

However, I feel that Amanda and I, in a genuine bipartisan and 
spiritual effort, should paraphrase Funny Dave and launch this little 
bit of wisdom:

"If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of 
its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He WILL 
NOT use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle, 
and His message WILL NOT concern the sexual orientation of a 
character on a children's program or the fictional exploits of a 
magical character in a children's book."

I mean, really, with all the problems in this world could you imagine 
that if God dropped by Earth he would tell us all not to read Harry 
Potter?

"Listen, my children, thou have sinned.  I dont care that you 
slaughter each other because you dont like the color of other peoples 
skin or their ancestry, or because you want their land or 
possessions, I dont care that women are raped and brutalized, or that 
children are abused, but I really think you should stop reading about 
a school where kids are learning how to make a pineapple tap dance 
across the desk."

I dont trust these anti-Harry Potter morons because although they 
sometimes seem to be able to think for themselves, I cant see where 
they keep their brains.

--Joywitch