I was interested to read that the Rev. Douglas Taylor, tireless guardian of innocent young souls everywhere, was in Lewiston last weekend urging the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s Community Advisory Board not to air a children’s TV program that makes a passing reference to gay parents.

Maine’s self-styled “Muggle” and Jesus Party founder condemned the “Sugartime” episode of the PBS show “Postcards from Buster,” in which a cartoon rabbit visits with real-life Vermont kids, who are being raised by a lesbian couple, as they learn to make maple syrup and cheese.

“You put gay in the music and the movies and the TV, and we’re putting filth in the house and introducing the gay agenda,” said Taylor, who held a toy bunny at the hearing with a sign reading “Don’t Pervert My Show.”

Despite Taylor’s protestations, the board decided Monday to run the show on April 16 and encouraged parents to make viewing decisions appropriate for their families. Not to be outdone, Taylor now says he wants to organize a rally in Lewiston to protest the episode’s airing.

You’d think the reverend would have enough to do these days just trying to rid the world of the army of young witches and sorcerers who, as we speak, are training their evil eyes on an unsuspecting population of young readers and ruining their chances of getting into heaven one day.

You might have heard about Taylor and his now infamous public protests against the wildly popular series of Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling and the enormously successful movies based on them. A few years back, Taylor and a small band of Jesus Party supporters held a Potter book-burning in Kennedy Park in Lewiston to enlighten those of us foolish enough to think the stories were harmless adventure-filled fantasies when actually they were an insidious plot by Satan himself to turn our kids into little occultists in training.

In 2002, Taylor planned to burn another Rowling book to protest the release of the movie “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” His bid to send Harry and his Hogwarts cronies up in smoke was foiled, however, when fire officials decided a bonfire was too dangerous and denied his permit. So Taylor, who also has denounced Peter Pan and the Wizard of Oz as cultist entertainment, took a stand against the perils of juvenile witchcraft by hacking up the Potter book with a pair of scissors and gleefully tossing the foul text into a trash barrel.

“Controversy! I love it, and I’m on the cutting edge of it,” the humble Taylor told reporters at the time while proudly wearing a “Muggle” tag to identify himself with the nonmagical humans in the book.

Now that Taylor has chosen to speak out against another of his perceived unholy abominations – the TV depiction of gay people raising kids like normal, God-fearing heterosexuals – his dismal anti-Potter track record suggests he probably won’t get too far. Not only have his silly exorcisms-by-scissors earned him lots of unflattering national press, they’ve done nothing to stem enthusiasm for the further adventures of Potter and his cohorts. When “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” comes out this summer, the U.S. printing of 10.8 million copies will set a record for a hardcover release.

You can bet the Rev. Muggle is already sharpening his scissors in anticipation.