Utah is a conservative state, and a law last year made it easier to remove “pornographic or indecent” content from schools. But one parent apparently saw this as a step too far.
The Bible. Pic: APA parent angered by a spate of book bans across the US has taken revenge, of sorts – by getting the Bible banned from some of Utah’s schools.
The Davis School District, which has nearly 74,000 children, has largely removed the book from circulation but has kept it in high school libraries.
In a copy of the parent’s complaint seen by NBC News, they said their effort to ban the Bible was a protest against a 2022 state law that made it easier to remove “pornographic or indecent” content from schools.
They said: “I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United (a conservative activist group backing the law) for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient”.
“Now we can all ban books and you don’t even need to read them or be accurate about it.
“Heck, you don’t even need to see the book!”
The parent, whose name is redacted in the complaint, submitted eight pages setting out objectionable material from the Bible, including examples of incest, prostitution, rape, genital mutilation, bestiality, and infanticide.
They described the Bible as “one of the most sex-ridden books around” and concluded that, under the new law, it had “no serious values for minors because it’s pornographic by our new definition”.