TheBoost said some time ago:

A School Board in Virginia voted a couple weeks back to remove the first Sherlock Holmes novel, "A Study In Scarlett" from the 6th grade reading list, because the book contains much that is anti-Mormon.

Every single article I've found refers to the book as "banned." This is a lie. It is not in any way prohibited, not removed from the library, and in fact is still on the 8th grade reading list.

Most articles make the dismissive claim that someone "decided" the book was "allegedly" offensive to Mormons. This is funny to me that anyone who defends literature doesn't even bother to read the book, which gives the Mormon's a supernatural-powered secret police that enforces child rape on pain of death. You can approve, disaprove, apoligize for, or explain away, but there's no denying that the novel is intentionally and clearly anti-Mormon.

I was thinking about this old discussion, because apparently Belgium courts decided that TinTin in the Congo is not racist, despite seeming pretty racist. Admittedly, I haven't read it. I wasn't aware courts made those decisions, but what do I know about Belgies.

What got me thinking was that "TinTin in the Congo" and "A Study In Scarlet" are both early works of what would later be highly respected series, and in both cases the authors later regretted the works later in their careers.

I'm not for banning anything, but I'm curious; do you think the changing opinions of the work's creators are relevant in any way in the discussions of that work's merits or flaws?