These days, with so many issues of social and political import and so little time, it can be difficult to decide what cause to take up, what wrong to right. It never ceases to amaze, but some folks miss the mark entirely, as reported here by the Associated Press:

Ga. board: Harry Potter books can stay

ATLANTA – The Georgia Board of Education voted Thursday to uphold a local school board’s decision to leave Harry Potter books on library shelves despite a mother’s objections.

The board members voted without discussion to back the Gwinnett County school board’s decision to deny Laura Mallory’s request to remove the best-selling books.

Mallory, who has three children in elementary school, has worked for more than a year to ban the books from Gwinnett schools, claiming the popular fiction series is an attempt to indoctrinate children in witchcraft.

“It’s mainstreaming witchcraft in a subtle and deceptive manner, in a children-friendly format,” said Mallory, who is considering a legal challenge of the board’s ruling. “The kind of stuff in these books – murder and greed and violence. Why do they have to read them in school?” [full text]