A popular Utah school district is considering the banning of the Holy Bible following a complaint from a parent who argued that it is a “sex-ridden” book.
According to the reports, a school district in Utah is thinking of banning the Holy Bible under new “sensitive materials” law after one parent filed a complaint, claiming that the bible contains “inappropriate and pornographic” material, forcing it to face committee review.
The controversy arose after the David School District received a complaint from a parent on December 11, seeking to remove all Holy Bibles from schools for being what the parent considered a “sex-ridden” book.
In response to the petition to review the aforementioned material, the school district entertained it on Tuesday and was made available on the same day with the parent’s name and address withheld.
In the petition, the complainant reportedly wrote, “Utah Parents United left off one of the most sex-ridden books around: The Bible. You’ll no doubt find that the Bible has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”
This petition was also followed by the passing of Utah’s “Sensitive Materials in Schools” law which was enacted in May that would “prohibit certain sensitive instructional materials” if they contain “explicit sexual arousal, stimulation, masturbation, intercourse, sodomy or fondling.”
Reports revealed that 5 months after the law was enforced, more than 250 complaints petitioning for certain books to be removed from schools had been filed by multiple parents.
According to the parent’s petition, the Holy Bible falls under this Sensitive Materials and that it needs to be removed.
“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide. 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 parent argued.
In response to the controversy, District spokesperson Chris Williams released a statement and assured that the challenge was undergoing a committee review as any other book despite its religious nature.
“It is a process. Anyone who requests a book to be reviewed has to have standing. We don’t jump to conclusions, we go through the entire process. We don’t blow off one request because we think it’s silly. This has been very time-consuming. We have 15 committees that have been established for this purpose.” Williams explained.
At the time of writing, the school is maintaining a policy that “Religious tracts, books, or literature may not be singled out for special regulation or prohibition based on content, but is subject to reasonable time, place and manner restrictions imposed by the schools on other non-school related literature.”
The complaint comes as Americans argue about whether this policy would affect a potential removal of the Bible from schools.
“Get this PORN out of our schools,” the parent reportedly wrote.
“If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offenses, this should be a slam dunk,” the complainant added.
