A Utah parent is speaking out against his daughter’s school district removing the Bible from elementary and middle schools.
The Bible was restricted to only the high schools in Utah’s Davis School District “based on age appropriateness due to vulgarity or violence,” after another parent filed a complaint. Last year, Utah passed a law to restrict pornographic and inappropriate material in public schools.
“The idea of that bill was to stop from conditioning our children to different values and beliefs than we want,” Colton Lindsay, a parent of a 10-year-old daughter who attends a school in the district, told Fox News Digital.
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“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the complaint reads. “Get this PORN out of our schools!”
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A representative of the district, Christopher Williams, told Fox News Digital that the King James Version of the Bible was removed from around seven to eight schools by a “Sensitive Materials Review Committee.” The committee’s members are unidentified but the district’s policy requires it to be constituted of a district department or school administrator, an English Language Arts teacher or other relevant subject, a librarian working in the district and four parents with students enrolled in a district school.
“I do think it’s pretty ridiculous, though, here that the Bible was removed, especially if you look at the context behind which those words were written,” he said. “It was not saying, ‘hey, let’s go practice incest or bestiality, it’s saying, hey, this is what decayed a society because of these behaviors and these practices.”
The King James Version of the Bible was removed from several schools in Utah. (iStock)
“Honestly, it’s like we’re watching the history of a new chapter of the Bible being written today,” Lindsay added. “That’s what it really feels like.”
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“It was about a ten-year-old girl who fell in love with her best friend. That was also a girl,” he said. “I don’t want my children taught specific things yet.”
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He said that he doesn’t think the book was intentionally placed in the school but likely “slipped through the cracks.”
“We believe that there is one gender of male, one gender of female, and we believe that’s how science works and that that’s how the forward movement should be taught to our children.”
Lindsay added that he doesn’t believe the bill’s original intention to remove inappropriate books should be labeled as a book ban.
“I don’t think that’s about banning those books, because if parents want those books, they can go purchase those books online,” he said. “What we’re saying is, ‘hey, look, we have had a specific way, a value system that we [don’t] want our children to be exposed to without our knowledge.’”
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