Bible Returned to School Libraries After Being Removed for ‘Vulgarity or Violence’ Due to Leftist Protest
The Bible was removed from elementary and middle schools in Utah’s Davis School District after leftists created a petition for its removal over “vulgarity or violence.”
The leftists were trying to retaliate after a state law was passed banning providing children with books containing sexual content.
On Tuesday, the school board unanimously voted to return the Bibles.
District spokesperson Christopher Williams said the “Bible has significant, serious value for minors that outweighs the violent or vulgar content it contains.”
School board President Liz Mumford, who voted to return the Bibles, echoed his statement and said that it “has serious literary, artistic, historical, and political value for minors.”
Under the state law, school districts must remove books if a parent complains that they have “human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal,” “acts of human masturbation or sexual intercourse,” or “fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals or pubic region.”
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