After a Utah state law allowing school districts to pull “pornographic or indecent” books from schools was passed last year, someone in the Davis School District submitted a complaint about the King James Bible, arguing the text was “pornographic by our new definition.”
A school district committee determined that the Bible was not age-appropriate for elementary and middle-schoolers. The Bible was pulled from seven or eight elementary and middle schools and will stay in high school libraries, Davis School District spokesman Chris Williams said via email.
The Bible’s journey through the Davis School District review process, the semester after Utah’s new law made it one of the states with the most book removals, comes amid a national surge in efforts to restrict what students read.
Fortunately the Book of Mormon proved not to contain concerning material in Utah, though some school districts have moved the book to the fantasy literature section alongside Sen. Mitt Romney's book, "Corporations are People Too, my Friend."
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