Conservatives demand the Bible be put back in schools after it was banned for vulgarity & violence

Parents and religious leaders opposed to removing the Bible from schools gathered at the Utah state Capitol.
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A crowd that included Republican lawmakers, religious leaders, concerned parents and their children, and one member of the Utah State Board of Education gathered at the state’s capitol building on Wednesday to oppose the removal of the Bible from libraries in one school district.

Late last month, a committee appointed by Davis School District to review books challenged under a 2022 Utah law banning books containing “pornographic or indecent material” from public K–12 schools, determined that the Bible should be removed from elementary and junior high school libraries in the district. The religious text will remain on high school library shelves as the committee determined that it “does not contain sensitive material” under Utah’s criminal code defining pornographic and harmful materials, but it will be banned at lower grade levels for “vulgarity or violence.”

As the Associated Press reports, parents at the Capitol on Wednesday held signs calling the Bible “the original textbook” and said the Bible shouldn’t be compared to other books that have been challenged under the 2022 law. Moreover, they asserted that the Bible should be…

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