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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Sherlock Holmes banned from reading lists for being anti-Mormon (USA)

Sherlock Holmes banned from reading lists for being anti-Mormon 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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