Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools 'due to vulgarity or violence'
Source: AP
By SAM METZ 54 minutes ago
The Bible is read aloud at the Utah Capitol, Monday, Nov. 25, 2013. The Bible has been banned at elementary and middle schools in the Davis School District north of Salt Lake City, after a review committee decided it wasn't age appropriate "due to vulgarity or violence." (Steve Griffin/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children.
And the Book of Mormon could be next.
The 72,000-student Davis School District north of Salt Lake City removed the Bible from its elementary and middle schools while keeping it in high schools after a committee reviewed the scripture in response to a parental complaint. The district has removed other titles, including Sherman Alexies The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and John Greens Looking for Alaska, following a 2022 state law requiring districts to include parents in decisions over what constitutes sensitive material.
On Friday, a complaint was submitted about the signature scripture of the predominant faith in Utah, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. District spokesperson Chris Williams confirmed that someone filed a review request for the Book of Mormon but would not say what reasons were listed. Citing a school board privacy policy, he also would not say whether it was from the same person who complained about the Bible.
Representatives for the church declined to comment on the challenge. Members of the faith also read the Bible.
Williams said the district doesnt differentiate between requests to review books and doesnt consider whether complaints may be submitted as satire. The reviews are handled by a committee made up of teachers, parents and administrators in the largely conservative community. .............
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/book-ban-school-library-bible-fc025c8ccf30e955aaf0b0ee1899608a
Tis the season of stupidity!!
bahboo
(16,339 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)They couldn't read!
RussBLib
(9,008 posts)So the preachers could maintain tighter control over the plebes. You know what happens when people start reading for themselves!
paleotn
(17,913 posts)According to the actual Bible. At least the Protestants weren't making it up from whole cloth. They used someone else's "made up from whole cloth."
paleotn
(17,913 posts)Then again, most who could read pre-Renaissance read mostly Latin.
Grins
(7,217 posts)
the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain burned alive at the stake anyone having or printing one.
And by Lord Chancellor I mean Sir Thomas More, aka, A Man for All Seasons.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)They can read that instead.
erronis
(15,257 posts)puttanesca sauce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_alla_puttanesca
Because puttana means roughly "whore" or "prostitute" and puttanesca is an adjective derived from that word, the dish may have been invented in one of many bordellos in the Naples working-class neighbourhood of Quartieri Spagnoli as a quick meal taken between servicing clients.[9][10][11] Alternatively, food historian Jeremy Parzen suggests: "Italians use puttana (and related words) almost the way we use shit, as an all-purpose profanity, so pasta alla puttanesca might have originated with someone saying, essentially, 'I just threw a bunch of shit from the cupboard into a pan'."[12]
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)Thank you.
paleotn
(17,913 posts)EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)AnnaLee
(1,039 posts)Probably 95% of children in Utah own their own private copy of the Bible (and Book of Mormon). I guess their parents and church teachers can read all that porno-violence to them at night and on Sunday.
Are these states restricting what books Book Stores can sell (and Amazon type book sales)?
paleotn
(17,913 posts)Other than hosting "the temple" it's quite progressive these days.
anciano
(995 posts)If the magats and Christian nationalists want to ban all books with content unsuitable for young children, then why not start with their own "holy" book?
I guess they never heard the old adage to "be careful what you wish for".....
erronis
(15,257 posts)What combination of letters and numbers are going to affect somebody out there.
The idiots seem to pretend offense at anything.
Oliver Bolliver Butt
(77 posts)which then adorned our VW bus for the next ten years.
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)TIHS HOO. This was in Virginia, where "Hoo" is someone who goes to the University of Virginia (used to be referred to in these parts as THE University). I was honestly surprised they got by with it but I haven't seen that in a long long time.
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)canetoad
(17,160 posts)"You gotta laugh." And you are.
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)We don't even need to explain ourselves.
paleotn
(17,913 posts)Really that's the worst thing a Christian can do. Quite contradictory and a classic tome on genocide.
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Technically speaking the bible is a very violent book with an abundance of stories that an author would be hard pressed to get published today. The blatant hypocrisy and misogynism not to mention chapters like Leviticus, Deuteronomy or The Story of Lot...its out of control.
DemocraticPatriot
(4,361 posts)"uncomfortable"...
kaotikross
(246 posts)The Bible is banned but books about the Church of the Sub-Genius are good to go? Holy cow and Praise Bob.
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DemocraticPatriot
(4,361 posts)NOT BANNING ANY BOOKS ??
Something to think about.... "freedom of choice" and all that...
msfiddlestix
(7,282 posts)Bayard
(22,071 posts)The Bible is full of tales of murder, rape, incest, and every other sin. I don't know how its escaped scrutiny this long.
twodogsbarking
(9,749 posts)As a teaching tool it should be banned.
Igel
(35,309 posts)"that book" from her desk and never let it be seen again--it violated Federal law and district policy--or she'd be sent to the principal and her parents would be called in for a serious discussion about what was allowed in school.
It was deeply offensive. '70s. Maryland.
And not a RW set of rulings, judicial or administrative. But the teacher (who insisted we learn how to "be" a "banana" to understand acting) was truly upset at the baleful presence of "that book" in her classroom.