'Nontheistic' nonprofit calls for Bible ban in Leon schools, citing Moms for Liberty efforts
'Nontheistic' nonprofit calls for Bible ban in Leon schools, citing Moms for Liberty efforts
Freedom from Religion Foundation says the Bible should be banned based on the same reasoning Moms for Liberty presented in their request to pull five books; "sexually explicit content."
The Freedom from Religion Foundation, which describes itself as a nontheistic nonprofit, is giving Leon County School District an ultimatum: Ban the Bible or stop banning books altogether.
In an email sent to school board members on July 14, the Freedom from Religion Foundation piled onto a recent successful effort by the local chapter of the conservative group Moms for Liberty to pull five books found in Leon County high schools.
The next school board meeting will be 2 p.m. July 24 to discuss the first official book challenge hearing of "I am Billie Jean King" by Brad Meltzer.
"We are disturbed that the district has chosen to start removing books from school libraries based on content taken out of context at the request of extremist groups like Moms for Liberty," foundation Staff Attorney Christopher Line said in the published email to the district.
Freedom from Religion says the Bible should be banned based on the same reasoning Moms for Liberty presented in their request; "sexually explicit content."
"We write to request that the District either ban the bible based on the criterion of 'sexually explicit content' it has used to ban these books, or cease banning books and return the banned books to school shelves," Line wrote in the email.
I'm pretty religious (Jewish) and am against book bans, but I support this. If Klanned Karenhood... I mean, Moms For Liberty, want books banned for sexual content, the Bible is prime for banning.
Here's one story in the so called "family friendly" Bible that's read to kids: After Lot escaped the destruction of Sodom and Gemorah, he and his daughters took refuge in a cave. The daughters thought that the entire world was destroyed and decided that they needed to repopulate the human race.
Unluckily, the only man that they knew was alive was their dad. "Luckily," the cave was filled with barrels of wine. So the oldest girl got Lot drunk and she slept with him. The next night, they got dear old dad drunk again so the younger daughter could sleep with him. Both daughters wound up giving birth to children by their father.
Nothing says "family friendly" to Moms For Liberty like rape and incest, I guess.
Yeah well of course you're for it, if I burned a Torah in front of a synagogue I'd bet you change your views very quickly on burning religious texts
You people are disgusting honestly
if I burned a Torah in front of a synagogue
Why do I get the impression that you would?
So do it. I bet we find that no one cares.
I would love the irony if the Bible became the most banned book in America
Fuck around and find out
Precocious exposure to biblical teachings, particularly when imparted by individuals with inadequate theological proficiency, may be unsuitable for children. The Bible's complex contextual nuances necessitate a cognitive maturity typically exceeding a child's developmental capacity. Such premature exposure may foster distorted understandings or render the child susceptible to manipulative interpretations advanced by ill-intentioned individuals.
On a side note, I am a Christian and I think VeggieTales is the most Satanic bullshit I've ever seen.
Except that's against the Constitution of the United States of America and a violation of peoples basic human rights. People have every right to practice their religious beliefs here, and I say that as a liberal progressive. Being offensive is not an excuse to destroy peoples fundamental rights, and it's a deadly slope to go down.
People most certainly have a right to practice whatever religion they want. However, as a "liberal progressive" you might want to brush up on the establishment clause of the first amendment. Especially if this is a public school.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
What did I miss here? If a Bible Ban were to even happen the SCOTUS would never allow it under any condition in any State, no matter how liberal the SCOTUS were at any given time as it is a direct attack on protected liberties and against all we believe in as a country
They don't have the right to force their religion onto others, which is what the case is about.
But it’s okay to ban books about Black people? Liberal progressive my ass
No, it's not okay to ban books about Black People and I never said it was at any point in the post I made.
Also like 80% of Black Americans are Christian you know
"Religion, particularly Christianity, has played an outsize role in African American history. While most Africans brought to the New World to be slaves were not Christians when they arrived, many of them and their descendants embraced Christianity, finding comfort in the Biblical message of spiritual equality and deliverance. In post-Civil War America, a burgeoning black church played a key role strengthening African American communities and in providing key support to the civil rights movement."
Removing books from school libraries is absolutely constitutional when that removal is done based on the content or (lack of) educational value. The courts have ruled on this repeatedly.
Everyone has a right to practice their religion, and the government cannot abridge that. However, the government does not need to facilitate that. If kids want to read a filthy book like the Christian Bible, they can bring their own copy from home and read it when it's not disruptive to the educational process.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation, which describes itself as a nontheistic nonprofit, is giving Leon County School District an ultimatum: Ban the Bible or stop banning books altogether.
You don't even have to click the link and read the article to see that their goal is not to ban the book, but to end book bans.
These badly-written bans being used to further Christian conservative religious and political agendas in public schools by banning legitimate topics are the problem. Get rid of the bad laws and fix the problem. Keep them around and they'll be used against you.
My view is that no book bans would be better. However, iif they are insisting that books should be banned for "sexual content" (even though most times the sexual content is minimal if it's even there), then the Bible should absolutely be banned. If there's one standard for the Bible and another one for LGBTQ books, then it's not a just rule.
It’s a deadly slope and groups like Moms for Liberty have already taken us down it. This case has two possible outcomes: 1, Ban the Bible, or 2. Return the previously, unjustly banned books. In chess this called a Knight’s Fork, and the group who posed it will win either way.
This is not a violation of their constitutional rights though... This is just a ban on copies of certain books from being in the school library. They want the bible included in that.
This is not saying a student who owns their own private copy of say, the bible, cannot bring their own copy to school and read it. Is only banning the library from carrying a copy.
No one's constitutional rights are being violated.
And it's been almost 20 years since I was in a US public school, but as I understood it back then, the public schools could not carry copies of the bible even if they wanted too.
It can simply be allowed in libraries that have readers that the content is more appropriate for like universities. It is sexually inappropriate for anyone younger.
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That's the most uneducated thing I've ever read.