WIZARDOLOGY Under Attack in Connecticut

The book, Wizardology: The Secrets of Merlin, has some parents upset in Connective, because it presents an "alternative religion."

What I most appreciate is the response by some members of the community:

Others aren't bothered a bit and say this kind of attention is a black eye to an otherwise outstanding school.

"Things like this put a bad name to the school where it's a school where teachers work hard, the assistants work hard, the principal works hard," said Rosemary Russo of West Haven.

"I looked at it, you know, I guess everybody's different, there are some items that could be taken the wrong way," said Molloy principal Steve Lopes.

Lopes says Wizardology was ordered through Scholastic Magazine and is a part of a series that did go through a selection process. It has now been pulled off the shelf and will be reviewed.

First, here we go again with a book being pulled off the shelves while it's being reviewed. Unless the library only has one copy, I don't see why a mere complaint gets a book pulled from circulation. Shouldn't library books, like people, be innocent until proven guilty?

Second, as a long-time Dungeon & Dragons player, my hackles are immediately raised by anyone who equates "magic" and "wizardry" with "evil" and "Satanism." And my eyes roll way back into my head whenever I encounter a person who doesn't seem to understand that these books are, um, fiction.