No serious value for minors
Well that’s the best headline I’ve seen in a while.
Utah primary schools ban Bible for ‘vulgarity and violence’
Right on! The vulgarity is off the charts.
Utah’s Republican government passed a law in 2022 banning “pornographic or indecent” books from schools.
In other words they made a noose for their own necks. The Bible is hella indecent.
The Utah decision was made this week by the Davis School District north of Salt Lake City after a complaint filed in December 2022. Officials say they have already removed the seven or eight copies of the Bible they had on their shelves, noting that the text was never part of students’ curriculum.
The committee did not elaborate on its reasoning or which passages contained “vulgarity or violence”.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper, the parent who complained said the King James Bible “has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition”, referring to the 2022 book-ban law.
Yer darn tootin’.
And the idea that primary school kids are being exposed to a bunch of pornographic and vulgar books is mostly just Republican propaganda. They’ve been on about this forever, but their definition of ‘pornographic and vulgar’ is so broad nearly any book outside their chosen canon counts.