A Utah parent upset about books banned from schools has gotten the Bible out of elementary and middle schools in a Utah school district..The advocacy of groups like Utah Parents United led the state to pass a law in 2022 that banned any book with “pornographic or indecent content” from classrooms and school libraries..This includes anything with explicit sexual arousal, stimulation, masturbation, intercourse, sodomy or fondling. The law led to The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the graphic novel Gender Queer to be removed..A parent called for the Bible to be banned from Davis School District and submitted their challenge Dec 11. The Salt Lake Tribune published the parents’ request with the parent’s name and address redacted..“I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient. Now we can all ban books and you don’t even need to read them or be accurate about it. Heck, you don’t even need to see the book! Ceding our children’s education, First Amendment Rights, and library access to a white supremacist hate group like Utah Parents United seems like a wonderful idea for a school district literally under investigation for being racist," wrote the parents..The claim was somewhat empty, however, as the application sheet the parent filled out required the parent to answer the question, “Have you examined the book/material entirely,” to which the parent wrote, “Yes.”.“I noticed there’s a gap, though,” the parent continued. “Utah Parents United left off one of the most sex-ridden books around: the Bible. Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide. 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. Get this PORN out of our schools! If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offences, this should be a slam dunk.”.The initial application included a link to an eight-page document full of explicit Bible passages, but that document has since been removed. The alleged dildo reference may have been Ezekiel 16:17, which says, “You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and my silver that I had given you, and made for yourself male images, and with them played the whore.” However, the book likens Israel’s idolatry to unfaithfulness as a lover, leaving the possibility that the passage is more metaphorical than literal..On June 1, the Davis School District finally decided to ban the King James Bible from middle and elementary schools for containing “vulgarity or violence,” but keep it in high schools. However, one junior high school and two elementary schools have Bibles that are in a different English translation that has not been challenged..Emboldened by the decision, a request was made the next day, June 2, to ban the Book of Mormon from schools. Its contents include battles, beheadings, and kidnappings..According to Wikipedia, the Davis School District is headquartered in Farmington, UT and includes 72,987 students and 2,769 teachers in 59 elementary schools, 17 junior high schools, eight high schools, and four special schools.
A Utah parent upset about books banned from schools has gotten the Bible out of elementary and middle schools in a Utah school district..The advocacy of groups like Utah Parents United led the state to pass a law in 2022 that banned any book with “pornographic or indecent content” from classrooms and school libraries..This includes anything with explicit sexual arousal, stimulation, masturbation, intercourse, sodomy or fondling. The law led to The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the graphic novel Gender Queer to be removed..A parent called for the Bible to be banned from Davis School District and submitted their challenge Dec 11. The Salt Lake Tribune published the parents’ request with the parent’s name and address redacted..“I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient. Now we can all ban books and you don’t even need to read them or be accurate about it. Heck, you don’t even need to see the book! Ceding our children’s education, First Amendment Rights, and library access to a white supremacist hate group like Utah Parents United seems like a wonderful idea for a school district literally under investigation for being racist," wrote the parents..The claim was somewhat empty, however, as the application sheet the parent filled out required the parent to answer the question, “Have you examined the book/material entirely,” to which the parent wrote, “Yes.”.“I noticed there’s a gap, though,” the parent continued. “Utah Parents United left off one of the most sex-ridden books around: the Bible. Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide. 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. Get this PORN out of our schools! If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offences, this should be a slam dunk.”.The initial application included a link to an eight-page document full of explicit Bible passages, but that document has since been removed. The alleged dildo reference may have been Ezekiel 16:17, which says, “You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and my silver that I had given you, and made for yourself male images, and with them played the whore.” However, the book likens Israel’s idolatry to unfaithfulness as a lover, leaving the possibility that the passage is more metaphorical than literal..On June 1, the Davis School District finally decided to ban the King James Bible from middle and elementary schools for containing “vulgarity or violence,” but keep it in high schools. However, one junior high school and two elementary schools have Bibles that are in a different English translation that has not been challenged..Emboldened by the decision, a request was made the next day, June 2, to ban the Book of Mormon from schools. Its contents include battles, beheadings, and kidnappings..According to Wikipedia, the Davis School District is headquartered in Farmington, UT and includes 72,987 students and 2,769 teachers in 59 elementary schools, 17 junior high schools, eight high schools, and four special schools.
