Hookbill, I must say a wonderful way your pastor put it.
Generally, I am not one to approve of parents banning books from their kids reading. Growing up, many books on the AP English Exam were ones that had been banned by parents. Thinking they were not appropriate, therefor it's almost impossible to get higher than a two unless you've read the banned books on your free time. My view is, you can't hide "black magic" or "bad things" from your children for ever, they're going to have to learn eventually. You're only bringing down your child's education by selecting what books he/she could read. There were figures somewhere, in the 1950's the average vocabulary for highschoolers was 25,000. 2000 it is down to around 10,000. Do you think banning certain books impacts this? Or not? I'm just curious.