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Evil Harry Potter Smites God-Fearing Librarian

Posted May 28th 2008 3:50PM by TMZ Staff

When you think "Harry Potter," you think of an evil, Occultist, pagan, heathen devil, don't you?

Well, in this lawsuit, a Missouri librarian refused to push the Potter books on kids because she was afraid that The Boss -- the Almighty One -- would bring his fury on her and cast her out if she did. Unfortunately, she ended up incurring the wrath of the boss -- the one who pays her rent -- and got herself canned as a result.

So now Deborah Smith has invoked the help of the highly secular ACLU, which is helping her sue the Poplar Bluff Library for money. You know, the earthly kind. Amen.

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1. TMZ............................... I NEED MY PRINCE FIX !

Posted at 3:59PM on May 28th 2008 by melissa

2. PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Posted at 4:10PM on May 28th 2008 by melissa

3. Good for her! Guess religious freedom is for everyone EXCEPT Christians. Ridiculous. I hope she wins her suit.

Posted at 10:19PM on May 28th 2008 by bethb

4. WHAT A TOTAL LOSER!!!!!!

Posted at 4:09PM on May 28th 2008 by wingley

5. HEH, a book about wizards and fightng battles against evil is considered evil?? That was as funny as some idiot posting posters saying that poke mon was evil because the trainer uses a wand to control the poke mon in his care!! Time for that librarian to get a life and quit raping other people with her religious beliefs!!

Posted at 4:10PM on May 28th 2008 by Dragon's Fire

6. Ha ha...I don't think she has a case. Even IF Harry was actually promoting wichtcraft, she would still have no grounds for not wanting to lent out the book. If the job has duties that are a direct affront to her "religion" she could always get another one.

Posted at 4:53PM on May 28th 2008 by pimp

7. another loser who wanted to push her views onto others...good for her...i would have fired her too. this is a country where you are free to chose what and if any religion you want. she got her just desserts......if she was that adamant about it, why work in a library. did she say the same thing to huckleberry finn & tom sawyer....the book uses the n word throughout. she was not afraid of god...she was palying god!

Posted at 4:10PM on May 28th 2008 by hahahahaha

8. I can't believe that Poplar Bluff is on here for something other than a drug bust!!! That's all that is in the news down here usually...

Posted at 4:18PM on May 28th 2008 by GoMules!!!

9. Too stupid and literal to work in a United States Library. It is not the Pentecostal or Southern Baptist Library. She thinks "wizards" are witches and warlocks and devil worshipers. Hellllllooooooo.........She is almost as bad as the kindegarten teacher in New Port Lucie, FL who asked the kids to vote a student with a Learning Disability (Asberger's Syndrome- a form of Autism) out of the class ! No wonder people are Home Schooling. What kind of FREAKS are teaching and coming in contact with our kids ?? Most are fine, but come on......get the wierdos ( uninformed teachers and librarians) off the campus and playground.

Posted at 4:28PM on May 28th 2008 by Bunnie

10. Good. I'm glad she lost her job. She SHOULD lose her job. How dare a public servant push her views on other people. I'm a teacher who WANTS her kids to read, and Potter books are popular with even the most reluctant readers. She deserved to be fired. This woman has a master's degree in library science and doesn't understand Rowling isn't anti God or Pro Devil. Rowling just wants to tell a good story. She, unlike this librarian, doesn't have an agenda.

Posted at 9:13PM on May 30th 2008 by sherdy

11. WOW. The ACLU must not have anything better to do than support some dumb nut bag that doesn't understand that having a job means you have to work some special events. If this truely was based on her religion then why would she work in a library that promotes Harry Potter? Sounds like she just wants a pay check, and the ACLU is like Gloria Allred, ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP SOME DUMBASS GET A PAYCHECK!

Posted at 5:27PM on May 28th 2008 by CristalleinKC

12. I HATE the ACLU. They take up every wing-nut cause they can get their hands on! Suppose the rest of us want pagan reading? Ms. Bible thumper gets her way?!

Also, isn't the ACLU responsible for getting "In God We Trust" off of every American institution they can? The ACLU is conflicted as hell. There needs to be an Anti-ACLU.

Posted at 4:31PM on May 28th 2008 by Jez

13. Too bad it's a public library and she can't bring her personal views on to the job and try to push those views onto others. If SHE CAN'T DO HER JOB WITHOUT BIAS THEN SHE DESERVES TO BE FIRED. That lawsuit doesn't have legs to stand on.

Posted at 4:33PM on May 28th 2008 by justin

14. WHO CARES ARE HAIRY CROUCHER

Posted at 4:32PM on May 28th 2008 by Krishna

15. I got family who live in that area and I am NOT surprised there is someone that stupid to sue the library.

Posted at 4:37PM on May 28th 2008 by ct114

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