JK Rowling denied top US honor
Matt Latimer, former speech writer for President George W Bush, said that some members of his administration believed her books promoted sorcery.
As a result, she was never presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The claims appear in Latimer's new book called Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor.
He wrote that "narrow thinking" led White House officials to object to giving Rowling the civilian honour.
As I said on Twitter, this is GOP, manifest destiny, entitled nation, divine favorite, narrow-minded thinking. Or bullshit, as it's commonly known.
The highest land in the office, and people are still making decisions based on insecure mythology and superstition. What does the Bible promote? Water into wine, oceans parting, talking burning bushes. By every measure, the Bible promotes sorcery just as much as Rowling's books. Perhaps more.
As a guy who has voted Republican in every election except this last one, it's "values" like this that will ensure I never return to the party until it decides to lose the religious shroud and get back to some level of rationalism.
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