Well, actually Middle School, not Elementary. Apparently “A Study in Scarlet”–the introduction to Sherlock Holmes–has been removed from a reading list in the Albermarle school district in Virginia because there were objections to the way Mormons were portrayed in it (since they were essentially depicted as a murdering, blackmailing cult).
In case you’re keeping score, Virginia was also the state that fought to the bitter end for the preservation of bans on interracial marriage. It’s also the home of Congressman Virgil Goode who sent around an email insisting that immigration laws had to be tightened up in order to make sure that Muslims didn’t flood into the US and wind up getting elected to high offices.
Perhaps Albermarle may want to consider publishing their own version, and every place in the story where the word “Mormon” is used, they can substitute “Black” or perhaps “Muslim.”
You can read more about it
here
Originally published October 20, 1995, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1144
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