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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MIB: [QB] Apparently several battle axes at Fargo decided that a school trip to the H.P. movie was in fact a religious practice worshiping our lord and savior, Harry Potter. This, in turn, means that it is a violation of church and state. Take a look. FARGO, N.D. (Reuters) - A witchcraft controversy brewing in a North Dakota town forced a local school to cancel a field trip to a screening of the new Harry Potter movie on Friday. About 100 students from Agassiz Middle School in Fargo were slated to attend the opening day of the widely anticipated movie, ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,'' which revolves around the adventures of a young wizard in a world of nonmagical mortals known as muggles. All the students, mainly aged between 12 and 15, had parental permission to attend the trip to a local movie house during school hours. But a few concerned parents and one local radio personality successfully killed the trip after raising concerns about the movie's depiction of witchcraft. The fact that some consider witchcraft a religion, the protesters said, meant that the school-led trip to the movie theater would constitute a violation of the separation of church and state and possibly lead to legal action. ``It's a little bizarre,'' said Fargo School Superintendent David Flowers, who supported the field trip. ``We believe that we were on firm ground in letting the kids go. But (the school) made the decision ... that they would just as soon not be embroiled in a controversy.'' Meanwhile in Memphis at least two Catholic schools said they were keeping the series of ``Harry Potter'' books by author J.K. Rowling out of their libraries because of the witches and wizardry content. ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' opened on Friday throughout the United States and was widely expected to break box-office records. I'm not exactly sure why the school was taking it's students to see Harry Potter of all things. IMO, it really isn't the schools place to be taking kids to theaters to see block-buster movies rather than teaching them something that would be useful in their lives. If they wanna see H.P. they can do it on a Saturday. :) With that being said I think it's idiotic that going to see H.P. would be counted as a violation of the seperation of church and state. When using that kind of logic they can say that a school taking a bunch of kids to see Star Wars would be a violation of the seperation of C&S too sense it involves some made up, sci-fi religions. In that case, the mighty Jedi-knights and the Sith. Same would be true if a school let it's students watch Star Trek 5 or any Star Trek episode involving any type of religions. Especally the ones that dealt heavily with the Bajorans. This is just stupid know matter how you slice it! I'm leaving. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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