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A school district in the US state of Utah has removed the Bible from elementary and middle schools for containing "vulgarity and violence".

The move follows a complaint from a parent that the King James Bible has material unsuitable for children.

Utah's Republican government ed a law in 2022 banning "pornographic or indecent" books from schools.

Most of the books that have been banned so far pertain to topics such as sexual orientation and identity.

The banning of the Bible comes amid a larger effort by US conservatives in states to ban teachings on controversial topics such as LGBT rights and racial identity. Bans on certain books deemed offensive are also in place in Texas, Florida, Missouri and South Carolina. Some liberal states have also banned books in some schools and libraries, citing perceived racially offensive content.

The Utah decision was made this week by the Davis School District north of Salt Lake City after a complaint filed in December 2022. Officials say they have already removed the seven or eight copies of the Bible they had on their shelves, noting that the text was never part of students' curriculum.

The committee did not elaborate on its reasoning or which ages contained "vulgarity or violence".

According to the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper, the parent who complained said the King James Bible "has 'no serious values for minors' because it's pornographic by our new definition", referring to the 2022 book-ban law.

The Utah state lawmaker who wrote the 2022 law had previously dismissed the Bible removal request as a "mockery", but changed course this week after calling it a "challenging read" for younger children.

"Traditionally, in America, the Bible is best taught, and best understood, in the home, and around the hearth, as a family," Ken Ivory wrote on Facebook.

The district's ruling determined that the Bible's content does not violate the 2022 law, but does include "vulgarity or violence not suitable for younger students". The book will remain in place in local high schools.

Bob Johnson, the father of a primary school student in the Davis School District, told CBS News that he opposes the Bible's removal.

"I can't think of what's in the Bible that you would have to take out of it. Its not like there's pictures in it," he said.

The district is not the first in the US to remove the Bible from its shelves.

A Texas school district last year pulled the Bible from library shelves after complaints from of the public opposed to conservatives efforts to ban some books.

Last month, students in Kansas requested to have the Bible removed from their school library.

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Yeah. I wonder how a child would be comfortable reading how 40,000 people was wiped out because of 10 commandments

or thousands of snakes biting everyone till the IMAGE OF A SNAKE was created. but the same people were onished for the image of a calf.

or wild bears tearing children apart because of another man's head.

Seriously I would deal with any teacher that brings religion to my child.

Feel free to buy all the versions of bible and read them to your children AT HOME. You can do it with loud speaker if you want.
keep your religion at home.

I blame 'Eve'.........stubborn woman!

Lol bible banned but LGBTQ nonsense will be allowed LMAO. The world is gone to shit. Accept Christ folks.

Case of a law backfiring

The law was made to ban pornography and lgbtq materials.

The Bible is a great book but it is filled with depicitons of violence and strong language and seggs

That's why, speaking as a born again Christian, don't try to ban.books. Such bans affect everyone including your favourite books.

Instead teach your kids discernment.

Righteousness2 won't like dis news..

Prophet Righteousness2 is on his way to spew his normal gibberish. Dude is just a clown who has little knowledge of the scriptures he quote up and down.
Many just realised the type of person Righteousness2 is from the thread he condemned the late Prophet T.B Joshua, many of us have always known that the said Righteousness2 is just an attention seeker with a holier than thou attitude.

Shey na today dem just dey see bible ni?

Americans are becoming insane day in and day out

They can accept sexual abnormalities, but this is where they want to draw the line

Great move. Ancient books that glorifies violence, profanity, slavery, magic and the rest, should be done away with in this modern age.

Religious people won't like this.

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Nice one, keep your religion at home.

Nawa oo. Americans are too controversial

Interesting times ahead...

Hope idea of LGBTQ will be tot at home within a family and not in the school as well?

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The internet has killed Christianity.

It is also gradually eroding islam . Islam is only surviving by Polygamy and uncontrolled birth rate.


The only religion worthy of practice by humans is science.

And the devil dwells everywhere in the world

This is going to the extreme


USA BETTER BE CAREFUL

superCleanworks:
Yeah. I wonder how a child would be comfortable reading how 40,000 people was wiped out because of 10 commandments

or snake biting everyone

or wild bears tearing children apart because of another man's head.

Seriously I would deal with any teacher that brings religion to my child. keep your religion at home.

Lol.

But you don't stay in Nigeria, right?

Not good

It's a free world

Antichrist on the beat.

Satan is that you at work?

Interesting?

Utah is a very very very conservative and republican state.

They got caught up in their own rules and ended up shooting themselves in the foot. The bible contains violence and sexual related contents.