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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

and reinstated it soon after

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State senator Kevin Sparks called the district’s Bible ban “misguided” in a 19 December post on Instagram. “The Bible is not educationally unsuitable, sexually explicit, or pervasively vulgar, making its removal legally and morally indefensible. At a time when students seek guidance, the Bible provides a vital moral framework.”

Well that's a Texas sized load of horse shit if I ever saw one. It's a book that prominently features child murder, sexual assault, incest, misogyny, mutilation and torture, genocide, and on and on and on. If the rules were properly and equally enforced, there'd only be math, chemistry, and physics books.

Although, it'd be absolutely hilarious if someone were to drop in some leftist writings and they were forced to keep books on unionizing and its benefits, unifying against the rich and collective action, and critiques of capitalism for not fitting the criteria of books that should be banned. Ahhh well, I'm sure they'd say such books are obscene and inappropriate and promptly ban them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

The leopards eating face party strikes again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Too bad it was only temporary. Someone should read it out loud to the parents without starting the name of the book.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If I were a children's book writer, you absolutely bet I'd be writing something like "Sex Ed As Told By The Bible" and include the most horrific scenes followed by a relevant verse from the Bible to back it up.

If Texas or any other states tried to ban it, all I'd have to do is go onto a cesspool like "Truth" Social and claim I'm being targeted by the anti-religious Republicans in that state and hopefully watch the fireworks go off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago