October 24, 2007 6:12 AM

Information I really could have lived without

J.K. Rowling Outs Hogwarts Character

Conservatives Attack Gay Dumbledore; Claim Vindication For Jerry Falwell’s Homophobia

On Friday, British author J.K. Rowling revealed for the first time that Albus Dumbledore, one of the central heroes in the record-breaking Harry Potter series, is in fact a gay man. Asked if Dumbledore, “who believed in the prevailing power of love,” had ever fallen “in love himself,” Rowling said that he once had with another male wizard. While Rowling considers her novels to be a “prolonged argument for tolerance” and most fans were “thrilled with the announcement,” some conservative blogs are criticizing the revelation…. One prominent conservative blog, Newsbusters, is claiming that the revelation somehow vindicates the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, who was showered with ridicule in 1999 after declaring that one of the Teletubbies, Tinky Winky, was gay. Mark Finkelstein, a Republican official in upstate New York, writes that “somewhere, Jerry Falwell is smiling” about the news….

MEMO TO J.K. ROWLING: PLEASE DO NOT FEEL THE TROLLS!!

Good God, can anyone recall a more pointless public utterance than this one? I understand what Rowling may have been trying to accomplish, but shouldn’t a children’s book be exactly that…and not a platform for political posturing of ANY flavor? All Rowling has really succeeded in doing is throwing raw meat to a few hungry Right-wing nutjobs with too much time on their hands and an oversupply of rampant, intolerant self-righteousness.

OHMIGOD….IT’S THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA IN THE PAGES OF OUR CHILDREN’S BOOKS!!!! WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??

‘Course, it IS kinda fun watching these trolls wind themselves up, isn’t it? I especially enjoy it when their faces turn all red and then veins in their foreheads begin to pulsate. Someday, one of them poor bugger’s pointy li’l haid is just gonna ‘splode…knowhutimean??

Actually, I think I’d pay to see that….

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