Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools 'due to vulgarity or violence'

[onthedarkside]

 

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children. And the Book of Mormon could be next.

 

The 72,000-student Davis School District north of Salt Lake City removed the Bible from its elementary and middle schools while keeping it in high schools after a committee reviewed the scripture in response to a parental complaint.

 

The district has removed other titles, including Sherman Alexie’s “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and John Green’s “Looking for Alaska,” following a 2022 state law requiring districts to include parents in decisions over what constitutes “sensitive material.”

 

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/utah-district-bans-bible-elementary-middle-schools-due-99799647

 

[KhunLA]

Banning the teaching of history and watching the evening news should follow, as way to violent.   Along with action & war movies, and Buddha forbid, kids watching the nature channel ????

[stevenl]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Banning the teaching of history and watching the evening news should follow, as way to violent.   Along with action & war movies, and Buddha forbid, kids watching the nature channel ????

At least this banning is consistent.

[Tug]

By their rules banning the Bible is acceptable but I don’t think the government should not be in the book banning businesses that is the job of the parents this banning of books dumbs down the kids and kills social progress in my humble opinion.not to mention the ugly historical connotations it evokes 

[onthedarkside]

Almighty Fail: Utah School District Bans the Bible

 

In a spectacular self-own for book-banning crusaders, the holy scripture faced a challenge in December when a parent fed up with books being removed from school libraries raised hell via a request to review the Bible as “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”

 

It comes after a Texas school district was forced to pull the Bible last year under a new book-banning policy introduced by conservative leaders.

 

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the Utah parent wrote in their request. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/almighty-fail-utahs-davis-school-district-bans-the-bible

 

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Banning this book is not enough. Its author should not be allowed anywhere near school children.

[Bkk Brian]

So if a librarian tries to get a copy of the Bible or any banned book to a student, they'll be prosecuted? LOL at least that would be the case in Arkansas

 

The law will subject librarians to criminal charges if they are found to have furnished any item deemed “harmful to minors”.

The plaintiffs argue the new law is illegal because it is a direct attack on free speech guaranteed by the first and 14th amendments to the US constitution.

They call Act 372 a censorship law that seeks to “ban books in libraries and criminalize librarians”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/arkansas-book-ban-law-lawsuit

[ThailandRyan]

Will they Ban the Book of Mormon as it discusses things that a child should not read about either, like Polygamy,,,,oh wait.......

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/book-of-mormon-now-challenged-in-utah-school-district-that-banned-the-bible/ar-AA1c3zRL

 

 

This is totally getting out of control.  Next up the libraries will only have dust on the shelves.

[Bkk Brian]

How would this work if the bible was banned in some schools in Texas?

 

The Texas Senate passed a bill Thursday requiring each public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten Commandments

 

What a complete mess.

[billd766]

5 hours ago, Tug said:

By their rules banning the Bible is acceptable but I don’t think the government should not be in the book banning businesses that is the job of the parents this banning of books dumbs down the kids and kills social progress in my humble opinion.not to mention the ugly historical connotations it evokes 

Instead of books being banned (which are freely available on the internet anyway), IMHO a better scheme would be to withdraw the child from the class during that period of time, and the complaining parent MUST attend the school and look after their child during that period of time. NO excuses should be accepted from the parent.

 

If it ruins the parents day, tough.