[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR messed up........ no/yes.

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 178394

On 10/23/07, Bunny <bunnyc at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> Everyone has an opinion on this and nobody is going to change anyone
> elses  mind, so why
> bother?  I for one am very very disappointed with Rowling 'outing'
> Dumbledore.
> I can't for the life of me see what it achieved and I feel it would have
> been
> best for her to have kept her mouth shut.  This series started as a
> children's story
> which caught on with adults and I thoroughly enjoyed the many years we
> spent discussing and debating it and the anguish of waiting for the next
> book. I fully intended re-reading the books many more times
> and reading them to my grandchildren.  However, to me, this has put a
> completely different complextion on the series and I don't think I'll be
> able to open the books again.  I'll be imagining
> homosexual connotations in everything Dumbledore says or does something.
> No, I'm not a prude, but God invented Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve,
> and I don't see
> why homosexuality should be thrust in our faces.  Children these days have
> a hard enough life...
> let them be children for as long as we can.
> OK, go ahead and tear me to shreds, but that's how I feel.
> Bunny


montims:
I would say reread your bible - if your God invented only Adam and Eve, then
where did Steve come from?  If you believe that God created everyone in his
image, why are there so many different types?  I think in Christianity Jesus
superceded the Old Testament God anyway, with his message of tolerance,
didn't he?


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