Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:21:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] The Golden Compass
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Samuel Lubell wrote:

> Michael Walsh wrote:
>> Well, it's set for December 7th: http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/
>>
>> & you'll need Flash.
>
> A movie should bring the Golden Compass to the attention of the
> fundamentalist book baning people.  It always surprised me that they
> went after Harry Potter as "Satanist" for being about witches (as if
> there weren't ten zillion other books with witches from Wizard of Oz on)
> and ignored Pullman's series, which, by his own admission, was
> deliberately anti-religion.

So are all of James Morrow's books.  The fundies go where the
publicity is.

=Tamar