Posted on 06/05/2023 9:24:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Utah’s Davis School District has removed the Bible from the libraries of its elementary and middle schools, citing passages describing sex and violence as inappropriate for those age groups. The decision has created a national stir since its announcement.
The process began when a parent filed a challenge to the continued presence of the Bible in school libraries, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
The complaint argued that the Bible, as “one of the most sex-ridden books around,” features multiple instances of content including incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, rape and infanticide. The complainant further asserted that such content clearly violates the Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227 passed in 2022, which bans books with “pornographic or indecent” content from schools.
In response, the district formed a committee to review the Bible and its appropriateness for student access. After a detailed investigation, the committee announced its decision.
The Bible will remain on the shelves of high schools in the district but will be removed from the libraries of elementary and middle schools.
Christopher Williams, spokesperson for the Davis School District, was quoted as saying that the decision would take effect immediately.
It is believed that seven or eight elementary and middle schools within the district currently hold copies of the Bible that will be removed.
As it stands, Davis School District libraries hold other religious texts, such as the Book of Mormon, Torah and Quran, available for students to check out without age restrictions. These have yet to face challenges similar to the Bible.
Following the removal of the Bible from many Davis School District libraries, a request was made to ban the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Book of Mormon due to its violent content. This religious text, deemed “a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible” by the LDS, will now face a review to determine its suitability for school libraries.
The Bible challenge and subsequent review occurred amid a nationwide wave of book removals from school libraries.
Under the same Utah Code, books such as The Bluest Eye by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and Gender Queer, a graphic novel exploring the author’s journey of self-identity, have also been removed from Utah schools.
Although the committee did not find the Bible to contain “sensitive material” as defined by the Utah code, the decision to limit the book’s availability was based on the age appropriateness of its content, Fox 13 reported.
The decision has faced backlash, with one parent appealing to keep the Bible accessible for students of all ages.
In response, the district will form a new committee consisting of three members of its Board of Education. The committee will review both the original complaint and the appeal and make a recommendation to the full board, who will make the final decision in a forthcoming public meeting.
The challenging of religious texts within the school district has sparked national debate and brought further attention to the ongoing discussions about the appropriateness of book content in schools.
I bet “Catcher in the Rye” is still there..................
You can bet this was the work of a few leftists using the system
Guess “death to the infidels” in the Qur’an is acceptable, age related content in Utah.
Definitely. Once you start banning books, it opens to door to all requested books to be part of the ban. Certainly, the founders of the ban had to know this.
Not if someone requests it be banned. Certainly someone in Utah will request it. It’s open season.
It is surprising coming from Utah.....................
The Mahabharata
Talmud
Tanakh
Quran
Vedas
Etc, etc.
What Makes Islam So Differen
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C2657980978
EXCERPT
The Quran contains at least 109 verses that speak of war with nonbelievers, usually on the basis of their status as non-Muslims. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.
Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, most verses of violence in the Quran are open-ended, meaning that they are not necessarily restrained by historical context contained in the surrounding text (although many Muslims choose to think of them that way). They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subject to interpretation as anything else in the Quran.
Hadith
Well, let’s be honest, the Bible does talk about violent events in Israel’s history. Consider just the following:
* The conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua where even women and children were ordered slaughtered
* The lawless violence against women described in detail in the book of judges, where Outrage at the rape and murder of a Levite’s concubine erupts into the near elimination of the tribe of Benjamin by the other tribes was violent.
* The slaughter of the innocent babies by King Herod was an act of horrible violence.
* The stoning of Stephen was an act of horrible violence
and finally — the greatest depiction of violence of all — THE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST.
Just saying ....
It was one woman using lawfare. I posted a link yesterday or Saturday in a thread.
Exactly. If it did happen, its some Leftist pulling a publicity stunt to try to argue that these laws are going to get things like the Bible banned. Next it will be some art history book that has a picture of Michelangelo’s David.
The difference...
The Old Testament is written under the Law with the Promise of Redemption and is fulfilled in the New Testament.
The Qur’an commands Muslims to kill the infidels past, present, future.
All the while graphic gay porn books aimed at children are probably on the library shelves at every school right now.
Did the Utah law provide an exception for the Bible and other religious texts?
Did the Utah law provide an exception for the Bible and other religious texts?
The Torah is part of the Bible and contains plenty of sex and violence.
As if The Bible is routinely checked out at the school’s library/used in the classroom.
These people be funny.
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