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Salt Lake City’s ABC affiliate reports:
Copies of the King James Bible are being removed from school library shelves at elementary and junior high facilities in Davis County, Utah, after a complaint that the scriptures feature material inappropriate for younger children.
The complaint was filed by an unknown person in March after a statewide law passed in 2022 allowed residents to challenge the books found in school libraries. As of March, the law was used 81 times with Davis County having removed 33 books for material found to contain sex, vulgarity, and violence.
The request for the Bible’s review included 49 pages of Biblical verses that could be deemed inappropriate under the law, including instances of murder, sex, and incest.
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The Bible has been removed from all elementary and middle school libraries throughout the Davis School District after someone challenged its contents. https://t.co/LWaTA0aH7a
— KSL (@KSLcom) June 1, 2023
#Utah’s Davis School District has banned The Bible after a challenge that claimed the book fell under a 2022 state law’s definition of “pornographic” content, requiring it to be removed from Utah schools, both in libraries and in the classroom. #BannedBooks https://t.co/imkwSBPsuP
— PEN America (@PENamerica) June 2, 2023
Davis School District’s book review committee made the determination, though it’s already being appealed by another parent.https://t.co/BIFqXCGIya
— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) June 2, 2023