Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories have appealed to generations - but on Thursday the Albemarle County School Board in Virgina voted to remove the detective's A Study in Scarlet from sixth-grade reading lists, the Charlottesville Daily Progress reports, because it is, as the board reported, age-inappropriate. But as the Los Angeles Times notes, "The two gory murders weren't the problem. The trouble was the way the book portrays Mormonism"Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sherlock Holmes banned from reading lists for being anti-Mormon (USA)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories have appealed to generations - but on Thursday the Albemarle County School Board in Virgina voted to remove the detective's A Study in Scarlet from sixth-grade reading lists, the Charlottesville Daily Progress reports, because it is, as the board reported, age-inappropriate. But as the Los Angeles Times notes, "The two gory murders weren't the problem. The trouble was the way the book portrays Mormonism"
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