Friday, August 26, 2011

TC Tidbit: Virginia School Bans Sherlock Holmes Book For "Anti-Morman Sentiments"

The book: A Study in Scarlet,  first published in 1887, is very special to fans because it is the book that Watson is introduced in.  The offending paragraph is:

"(John Ferrier) had always determined, deep down in his resolute heart, that nothing would ever induce him to allow his daughter to wed a Mormon. Such marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace. Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible. He had to seal his mouth on the subject, however, for to express an unorthodox opinion was a dangerous matter in those days in the Land of the Saints." (via the Los Angeles Times)



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