Utah lawmaker calls banning Bible from school shelves 'reprehensible' during committee meeting on Capitol Hill
Earlier this month, the district removed the King James Version of the Bible from elementary and junior high schools after a committee found it contained"vulgarity and violence."
Utah State Sen. Jacob Andregg, a member of the Administrative Rules and General Oversight Committee, said he found banning the Bible reprehensible, while at the same time not banning pornography."How do we write and change this law to where books where a women naked over a man with a gun to his head is allowed in the libraries of your junior high, and the bible is not," asked Rep. Kera Birkeland.
"The challenge is that each committee views it differently. Each human being views this differently. So that is a challenge," explained Linford.
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