Parents Ask for the Bible to be Removed From a Utah School: "Pornographic, Indecent, Vulgar, Violent"

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Introduction by Adam Gonzalez, Founder Adamfoxie Blog

I am sure the people that ask for the bible to be put in these schools and many others have never read the bible. The only thing they know is what is read to them in Churches and funerals. The Bible is a book that was kept away from the people and only the priest could read it. Luther by traducing the Bible into German and the printer being invented at the same time brought for the first time if you had the money to be able and read some of it. Eventually, the bible would b everywhere. But something happens! More and more crimes came to be from people quoting the bible and the reason. If they quoted a passage and you check you will find they were right. The Bible does not give anyone the right to do anything. The Bible is a book and if you like to think the book is inspired by god, that's great too. But to do harm or even good because you think the bible tells you so, you are cheapening the bible either as a book with history and old great stories or to the book of good. To be carrying the bible under your arm does nothing to the respect of the book and nothing for you. Why do you carry it under your arm? Are you going to be reading it as you walk or drive? Particularly before you read it and more importantly, quote it. 

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By Samantha Cole

The Bible they said is Pornographic and Indecent.

A Utah school district banned the Bible from its elementary and middle school libraries for containing “vulgarity or violence” after a parent used the state’s bans on pornographic and indecent content against Christianity's horniest fanfic.

In 2022, Utah passed a law banning books with “pornographic or indecent” content, and defined those terms loosely and vaguely, which restricted access to many titles that contain age-appropriate themes addressing characters’ gender, sexuality, and race. Young adult fiction authors including Judy Blume, Maia Kobabe, Jodi Picoult, and Sarah J. Maas were among those restricted from school libraries in the Alpine School District in Utah, the state’s largest district.

In March, a parent in Utah wrote to the Davis School District, demanding that the Bible be taken off shelves based on the new law. “Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” they wrote, accurately and non-exhaustively. “Get this PORN out of our schools... If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offenses, [the Bible] should be a slam dunk.”

The district appointed a committee to review that parent’s complaint and determined that while the Bible can stay on high school shelves, it needed to be removed from younger grades. Davis School District spokesperson Christopher Williams told the Salt Lake Tribune that Bibles would be removed from the district's seven or eight school libraries immediately. 

According to the Tribune, another parent has already appealed that parent’s demand, so the district will need to form a committee consisting of three members of Davis School District’s Board of Education, which will make a recommendation and send the decision to the board for a vote. 

But for now, Bibles—with their descriptions of rape, incest, bestiality, and violent baby-killing—will be kept away from children at those schools.