March 24, 2023
SUBLIME:
A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here's their full challenge. (Courtney Tanner, March 23, 2023, Salt Lake Tribune)
When you make a law hopelessly vague so you can use it as a weapon, you risk it being turned on you."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. ยง 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.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 24, 2023 7:24 AM