As long as they feel good about themselves…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes stories have appealed to generations — but on Thursday the Albemarle County School Board in Virgina voted to remove the detectives 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 werent the problem. The trouble was the way the book portrays Mormonism.”
via Sherlock Holmes Banned from Reading Lists for Being Anti-Mormon – National – The Atlantic Wire.