Posted on 04/11/2016 10:00:19 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK (AP) — On the latest list of books most objected to at public schools and libraries, one title has been targeted nationwide, at times for the sex and violence it contains, but mostly for the legal issues it raises.
The Bible.
“You have people who feel that if a school library buys a copy of the Bible, it’s a violation of church and state,” says James LaRue, who directs the Office for Intellectual Freedom for the American Library Association, which released its annual 10 top snapshot of “challenged” books on Monday, part of the association’s “State of Libraries Report” for 2016.
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New York values?
I’ve shown up at a couple of Banned Books Week events with my Bible at the community college where I’m an adjunct.
It’s always fun tweaking the pompous, pious all-inclusive crowd.
So are they going to start burning Bibles?
Antiochus IV Epiphanes tried to destroy it.
The Caesars released the Legions of Rome to destroy it.
Mohammed tried to replace and destroy it.
Kings tried to prevent its translation.
Atheists denigrate it.
So what is in it that terrorizes them so? Perhaps they should read it and find out.
Ever notice how hard it is to post a comment on some these links! It is like the publishers do not want comments.
In this case I go to the web page to read the article, see the “Comments” link, press that and it merely reloads the same page again without the comments.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/04/11/holy-bible-on-list-of-challenged-books-at-libraries/#comments
The federal government ought be neutral as to whether a book is religious or not. The cultural, historical, and to a great many moral and spiritual significance of the bible is huge, so there is a public interest in having it in libraries.
It was just today I heard a local news story that a Bible was removed from a display at WPAFB due to “complaints”!
Books are often donated.
So long as it's placed in the fiction section, under "adult" PG section, who can object?
Everyone's happy.
The real problem is selective censorship. Libraries are usually adjuncts of government. Government cannot censor. That's Constitutionally settled law.
The librarian is an idiot.
Every book ever printed can induce "complaints!"
Imagine...
A bookless library.
NONSENCE!!!
GOOD GRIEF ... MAKES NO SENSE.
Freedom of liberty, choice,well being does not force
others to become Christians.
Burning books and barring books is not freedom.
It is threatening freedom at an extreme degree.. MOO.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Thank Thee LORD for Thy grace, mercy, loving kindness in JESUS NAME AMEN.
But, I’m sure that the Quran is perfectly welcome.
We’ll be in the 24th Century before you know it.
It was in a display at Wright Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center. A Viet Nam memorial of some kind. The group that was protesting supposedly represented 30 some people who said it has no business there. I thought to myself if ever a group of soldiers needed the Lord’s protection it was those guys! I wish I could round up a group of protestors to demand they put it back!! Of course we’d never get near the place without getting shot!! LOL.
LaRue emphasized that the library association does not oppose having Bibles in public schools. Guidelines for the Office for Intellectual Freedom note that the Bible “does not violate the separation of church and state as long as the library does not endorse or promote the views included in the Bible.” The ALA also favors including a wide range of religious materials, from the Quran to the Bhagavad Gita to the Book of Mormon. LaRue added that the association does hear of complaints about the Quran, but fewer than for the Bible. …There’s a reason why the preamble to the Communist Manifesto names “Pope and Tsar” as among the primary enemies of communism. It never mentions Islam by name in that manner.
Each year the American Library Association fakes the “Banned Books Week” list to drum up business for itself. In reality, very few books are challenged and none have been banned since 1963. One year I found out the top listed book was challenged only four times all year across the entire USA. Big whoop. That same year the author of the ninth-listed book revealed that ALA told her others where challenged more than hers but since it dealt with homosexuality, they put it on the list.
See:
http://safelibraries.blogspot.com/2011/09/banned-books-week-is-gay-promotion.html
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