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Amarillo’s ABC affiliate reports:
The Bible is back on Canyon ISD shelves after being temporarily removed under a new state law banning sexually explicit material from school libraries.
House Bill 900, known as the READER Act (Restricting Explicit and Adult Designated Educational Resources), states, “a library material vendor must perform a contextual analysis of the material to determine whether the material describes, depicts, or portrays sexual conduct in a way that is patently offensive.”
CISD determined that included the Bible. ABC 7 News contacted Canyon ISD which said reports do not tell the whole story. “After receiving clarification from Representative (Jared) Patterson regarding library content, we reevaluated the guidelines and are pleased to have the Bible available in each of our Canyon ISD libraries.”
Read the full article. Patterson [photo] wrote the bill. He previously appeared here as the author Texas’s “Don’t Say Gay” and anti-drag bills. In October 2023 he appeared here when he returned donations from a group affiliated with pro-Hitler activist Nick Fuentes.
Perhaps the best thing to come out of this whole Canyon ISD Bible banning & un-banning debacle is that Jared Patterson admitted a book ban, is a book ban. Not once, but three times. https://t.co/rGCPLy7Ann pic.twitter.com/5TzEb6kFAh
— TX Freedom to Read Project (@TXFreedomRead) December 20, 2024
Superintendent Darryl Flusche announced in an email leaked earlier this week that under HB900, protecting schools from sexually explicit or vulgar content, the Holy Bible is unsuitable due to “sexually explicit material.”https://t.co/Nsa7D8hJeK
— FFRF (@FFRF) December 19, 2024