A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge.
The parent writes that the book should be considered indecent under Utah’s new book banning law, after seeing the other titles that have been pulled.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/
By Courtney Tanner | March 22, 2023, 2:55 p.m. | Updated: March 23, 2023, 11:48 a.m.
Frustrated by the books being removed from school libraries, a Utah parent says there’s one that hasn’t been challenged yet, but that they believe should be, for being “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”
So they’ve submitted a request for their school district in Davis County to now review the Bible for any inappropriate content.
“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent wrote in their request, listing topics they found concerning in the religious text. “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.”
The code cited is the Utah law passed in 2022 to ban any books containing “pornographic or indecent” content from Utah schools, both in libraries and in the classroom. It came after outcry from conservative parents groups, who have been pushing to have titles removed.