The complaint regarding the Davis School District in Utah has come a long way since it was filed last December, and after reviewing this week, Committee dedicated to the cause decided to take the Bible out of seven or eight elementary and middle schools, although high schools may support it.

To the surprise of many upon learning of the decision, this Friday, Republican lawmaker Ken Ivory, who was pushing for a law restricting access to “obscene” books, first criticized the label “pornographic” for Bible and said it was a “joke” and a political misrepresentation, he gave in and even thanked the committee for vetoing religious text in the classrooms and libraries for the little ones.

In a Facebook post, Ivory believes that Bible “It’s hard to read” for elementary school students in the compulsory education system, adding that “traditionally in America Bible it is best taught and best understood at home, by the fire, with the whole family.”

According to the Tribune, the suing parent did so out of frustration that books were being withdrawn from schools due to conservative denunciations, a trend noted in April by major U.S. free speech advocacy groups, the American Library Association ( ALA) and the American Library Association (ALA). Writers’ organization PEN America.

In 2022, attempts to censor books doubled from the previous year to a two-decade high, according to the ALA, while PEN America also recorded an increase in book bans in schools, directly attributing this to restrictive laws promoted by government-controlled states. Republicans. such as Utah, Florida and Missouri.

(EFE)