(Insane News) Sherlock Holmes Banned from Reading Lists for Being Anti-Mormon - National - The Atlantic Wire

Sherlock Holmes Banned from Reading Lists for Being Anti-Mormon - National - The Atlantic Wire

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories have appealed to generations -- but on Thursday the Albemarle County School Board in Virgina voted to remove the detective's A Study in Scarlet from sixth-grade reading lists, the Charlottesville Daily Progress reports, because it is, as the board reported, age-inappropriate. But as the Los Angeles Timesnotes, "The two gory murders weren't the problem. The trouble was the way the book portrays Mormonism."...