The media presentation of the event as Ms. Rowling’s endorsement of homosexuality and an anti-faith agenda was straight from Rita Skeeter's notebook and part of their endless campaign to convince the public that Ms. Rowling is the enemy of their enemy, namely, the Church; the anguished and disappointed response of many Christian readers to these reports was also according to Culture War formula and in keeping with a hyper-extended understanding of the word "gay." "Dumbledore is gay" no more makes the books an invitation to homosexuality or contrary to orthodox Christian belief than "Sorcerer’s Stone" made them a "gateway to the occult."