A Utah parent has filed a formal request to have the Bible removed from the libraries of the Davis County School District under new state legislation that bars “pornographic or indecent” content.
Referring to the Bible as “one of the most sex-ridden books around,” the parent apparently made the request in protest of the 2022 state legislation that resulted in a wave of book bannings in Utah schools.
“I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United 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,” the parent wrote in the request, which was obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune. “Heck, you don’t even need to see the book!”
“Ceding our children’s education, First Amendment Rights, and library access to a white supremacist hate group like Utah Parents United seems like a wonderful idea for a school district literally under investigation for being racist,” the parent went on to write.