Bible Banned in Utah Elementary School District.

In the end, it's not the actual level that the ban is happening on. If you want to have books removed on a given criteria, then if that criteria is present in the bible or a given collection of stories from it, then they need to go too. If the actual book is not in the elementary schools, then there should be no fuss on your part, because there is nothing to remove. But say you want all references to polygamy removed. Then a children's bible that includes the story of Jacob and his two wives Leah and Rachel would need to be removed. Or against sexual relations outside of marriage, then a children's bible including the story of Abraham and how he had a son by his wife's handmaiden would need to be removed.

 

One wonders if they also took the Book of Mormon off the shelves.

 

The follow up question to that is, does the Book of Mormon have any of the depictions that the people wanting the given books removed for that the bible also has. If not, then no problem letting it stay. Same for the Quran. The Torah would be out as well since many of those depictions would be there as well, but one might get away with a NT section only Bible, as most of the objectionable material would be in the OT.

 

Well yes that IS what the issue was, in which age group libraries that version should be. It wasn't being removed from the upper grade libraries..................you DO understand that?

 

There are two specific categories of people one should never engage or debate because not only does it not serve any valuable purpose, it actually does more harm. The moment I read the phrase 'deviant lifestyle' I know that its author falls into one of those categories.

 

Never play chess with a pigeon.

The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over.

Then shits all over the board.

Then struts around like it won

 

And the other books are staying on those upper levels also, aren't they? If you remove a book from any level of schools for say, "non-traditional" marriage practices, then the bible has to go too since it has polygamy as well as other non-monogamy (Abraham again). If the other books are only removed from elementary, then the bible is only removed from elementary. If from all three or four levels (depending on how it is divided up), then the bible would go on all those levels. The level itself doesn't matter. The consistency at each level does.

 

It's back.

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

 

Looks like the parental rights of the parent who first made the complaint is being violated.

 

Again its book by book basis.. I would quote your last line back at you but you would report it as a personal attack.. ironic eh?

 

Unsurprisingly — y’all just told on yourself that you don’t really care about the content you just have an agenda against specific topics

That that anyone didn’t already know this