Utah school district returns the Bible to shelves after appeals and outcry

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Utah school district returns the Bible to shelves after appeals and outcry

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Bibles will return to the shelves in a northern Utah school district that provoked an outcry after it banned them from middle and elementary schools last month.

Officials from the Davis School District, which educates 72,000 students north of Salt Lake City, said at a board meeting Tuesday that the district had determined the sacred text was age-appropriate for all district libraries. In allowing the Bible to be accessible to students regardless of their grade level, the board sided with 70 people who filed appeals after it was banned last month.

“Based on their assessment of community standards, the appeal committee determined that The Bible has significant, serious value for minors which outweighs the violent or vulgar content it contains,” the committee wrote in a decision published along with school board materials.

The committee's reversal is the latest development in the debate over a Utah law allowing parents to challenge “sensitive materials” available to children in public schools. Parents' rights activists successfully lobbied for the legislation in 2022 amid a wave of new laws targeting the materials accessible in schools and libraries — particularly about race, gender and sexuality.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. It ain't fucking appropriate for ANY public school library

Neither is the Koran, the Torah, etc.

And I'm not even talking about the brutality and genocide and fratricide and infanticide and child rape and polygamy and incest and misogyny and babies being forcibly removed from the uterus of 'adulteresses' and support of slavery.

I'm talking separation of church and state.

[Walleye]

5. Hear! Hear!

[msongs]

2. grooming nt

[sakabatou]

3. So, is the school district also going to return other books which were banned?

[Walleye]

4. Sit it right next to Mark Twain's "mysterious stranger"

Mark Twain is a lot more valuable to young people as well as a lot more fun to read. I bet they removed all his books. He ended life as an atheist

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I'd like to see a public reading of the "naughty bits" of the Bible

to celebrate The First Amendment.

Start off with Song of Solomon and continue with Lot and his daughters, and more.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Those parents don't have a Bible at home for their kids to read?