“Rowling is on the side of the angels”
JK Rowling speaks out
against homophobia
Tue, Mar 11 2008
Crushable
In
an interview given to Edinburgh University’s Student newspaper, JK Rowling
defines what homophobia means to her as well as the thought process that went
into outing Dumbledore as a gay man:
“Homophobia is a fear of people loving,
more than it is of the sexual act,” she said.
“There seems to be an innate distaste for the
love involved, which I find absolutely extraordinary.
“The issue is love. It’s not about sex…
The
relvelations about Dumbledore have given evangelical Christians new reason to
call for her works to be banned. The author told the Student:
“Fundamentalism is, ‘I will not open my
mind to look on your side of the argument at all. I won’t read it, I won’t look
at it, I’m too frightened.
“That’s
what’s dangerous about it, whether it be politically extreme, religiously
extreme.
“In
fact, fundamentalists across all the major religions, if you put them in a
room, they’d have bags in common! They hate all the same things, it’s such an
ironic thing.”
Read
more:
Dumbledore's
homosexuality -- Rowling says "So what?" to those who disagree with a
gay character in a children's novel. 04-03-08
JK
Rowling addressed Dumbledore's homosexuality in a recent interview with
Scotland's Edinburgh University student paper. In the interview,
Rowling says "So what?" to those who disagree with a gay character in
a children's novel.
Says
Rowling: "It is a very interesting question because I think homophobia is
a fear of people loving, more than it is of the sexual act. There seems to be
an innate distaste for the love involved, which I find absolutely
extraordinary. There were people who thought, well why haven't we seen
Dumbledore's angst about being gay? Where was that going to come in? And then
the other thing was — and I had letters saying this — that, as a gay man, he
would never be safe to teach in a school...He's a very old single man. You have
to ask: why is it so interesting? People have to examine their own attitudes.
It's a shade of character. Is it the most important thing about him? No, it's
Dumbledore for God's sake. There are 20 things that are relevant to the story
before his sexuality."
Read
more:
Rowling Reveals Harry
Potter Secrets
Saturday,
Oct. 20, 2007
The
author was in the U.S. this week for a book tour, mainly for schoolchildren, but I had been lucky
enough to win a ticket in a sweepstakes for the only evening event in New York
City…
But
when the questions began — they had been submitted by audience members before
the event — she came into her own. Finally able to talk freely about the end of
a series that had been so long-anticipated, she left nothing out. The big
revelation of the night came when she was asked if Dumbledore had ever found love. With a sigh, she seemed on the
verge of saying no, but then revealed, "my truthful answer to you... I
always thought of Dumbledore as gay." After a collective gasp, the
audience roared with applause. Rowling was clearly astonished by the positive
reaction and exclaimed, "if I'd known it would make you so happy, I would
have announced it years ago!" …
As
the questions went on, she opened up even more, having conversations with the
audience and making jokes about herself in a very British, self-deprecating
way. When a voice resonated through the theater from an unseen source, she
exclaimed "God...And they say I don't believe in you," alluding to
the many people who claim her books are anti-Christian…
Read
more:
Dumbledore was gay, JK tells amazed fans
Saturday
20 October 2007
Millions of fans around the world were yesterday digesting the news
that one of the main characters in the Harry Potter novels, Albus Dumbledore,
is gay.
The revelation came from
author JK Rowling during a question-and-answer session at New York's Carnegie
Hall. It instantly hurtled around the internet and the world. News websites in
China and Germany announced starkly: 'JK Rowling: "Dumbledore is
gay".' One blogger wrote on a fansite: 'My head is spinning. Wow. One more
reason to love gay men.'
After reading briefly from her mega-selling book, Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hallows, on Friday night, Rowling took questions from an audience
of 1,600 students. A 19-year-old from Colorado asked about the avuncular
headmaster of Hogwarts School: 'Did
Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love
himself?'
The author replied: 'My truthful answer to
you...I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.' The audience reportedly fell
silent - then erupted into prolonged applause.
…Amazed by the warm reaction of the audience,
Rowling, on her first US tour in seven years, joked: 'Just imagine the fan
fiction now.'
Read more:
Pope John Paul II praised the multi-millionaire for her Christian
lifestyle
The Pope and the Wizard
April
21, 2005
…After the German
cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, his books jumped to the top
four places in the German Amazon.com rankings, and three more of his titles,
none of them previously in the top 100, turned up in the top 10. His latest
book, ''Values in Times of Upheaval,'' above, published only a week ago, was
sold out. Reuters also reported that in the United States, eight of the pope's
works made it to the Top 20 on the Amazon chart, but advance orders for J.K.
Rowling's ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,'' due in July, were strong
enough to keep it in Amazon.com's top spot…
Read more:
New Pope Hits Out at
'Harry Potter' Books
Monday,
April 25, 2005
HOLLYWOOD
- New Pope Benedict XVI has blasted J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books
for "undermining the soul of Christianity".
Nicknamed
'God's Rottweiler', Pope Benedict is set to confuse Catholics across the world
because his predecessor John Paul II
praised the multi-millionaire for her Christian lifestyle.
Benedict,
formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is grateful to Harry Potter: Good or Bad
author Gabriele Kuby for revealing the hidden agendas behind the popular
children's books.
He
says, "It is good that you explain the facts of Harry Potter, because this
is a subtle seduction, which has deeply unnoticed and direct effects in undermining
the soul of Christianity before it can really grow properly."…
'Harry Potter' Craze Does Not Amuse the Pope
July
14, 2005
…"At
this point, it's not exactly clear what then-Cardinal Ratzinger thinks of the
books," Ms. McCaffrey said, explaining that the letter to Ms. Kuby might
have been simply an expression of appreciation for calling attention to the
question of whether "Harry Potter" was a corrupting influence.
Someone
who has looked into the role of fantasy in children's spiritual development is
a Catholic professor of literature at York College at the City University of
New York, James Como, who is also a self-described fan of both Harry Potter and
Pope Benedict.
"On
the surface, I can see how people, Christians especially, might have
reservations," Mr. Como said of the Rowling books. "There are all
these words and characters that have been associated with the occult in the
past - witches and wizards have not, for the most part, been good things."
"But once you read
the books," Mr. Como said, "you
realize that Rowling is on the side of the angels."…
Read more:
J.K. Rowling – “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the
Importance of Imagination”
June 5, 2008 – Harvard University – Commencement Address
– Video – Transcript
Excerpt:
…One of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry
Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those books.
This revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day jobs. Though I was
sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early
20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International’s headquarters in London.
There in my little office I read hastily
scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who
were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to
them. I saw photographs of those who had disappeared
without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and friends. I
read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their injuries. I
opened handwritten, eye-witness accounts of summary trials and executions, of
kidnappings and rapes…
…Every day, I saw more evidence about the evils
humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain power. I
began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw,
heard, and read…
…Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and
understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other
people’s places…
And many prefer not to
exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably
within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it
would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear
screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any
suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.
…I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often
more afraid.
What is more, those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters.
For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with
it, through our own apathy…
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Ecclesiastes 1:5 (New International Version)
5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
Ecclesiastes 1:5 (New American Standard Bible)
5 Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again.
1 Chronicles 16:30 (New International Version)
30 Tremble before him, all the earth!
The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
1 Chronicles 16:30 (New American Standard Bible)
30 Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.
Psalm 93:1 (New International Version)
1 The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty;
the LORD is robed in majesty
and is armed with strength. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Psalm 93:1 (New American Standard Bible)
1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The LORD has clothed and girded Himself with strength; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.
Psalm 96:10 (New International Version)
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns."
The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;
he will judge the peoples with equity.
Psalm 96:10 (New American Standard Bible)
10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns; Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity."
Psalm 104:5 (New International Version)
5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
Psalm 104:5 (New American Standard Bible)
5 He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever.
Injustice anywhere is a
threat to
Justice everywhere
Martin Luther King
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
What you cannot do is accept injustice.
From Hitler – or anyone.
You must make the injustice visible
– be prepared to die like a
soldier to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit.”
…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6
Important note: No disrespect meant to Pope Benedict XVI or the hierarchy, the one and only concern is the safety and well-being of children.
Kids Are Being Hurt!!!
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