One legislator said it was accepting “atheism and hedonism” to remove the Bible, but Davis School District officials said they just followed the law legislators wrote.
, R-Bluffdale, said taking the religious text off shelves of elementary and middle schools in the district was “bogus” and a move toward “accepting the religion of atheism and hedonism.”
Linford said in creating its policy, Davis mirrored the model provided by the Utah State Board of Education. Parents can submit requests for review in the district if they worry a book contains pornography or sensitive materials. And a review committee made up of parents and staff will be formed by the district to look into the title.
The committee found the Bible was not because it contained “violence or vulgarity” and decided it should only be available for high school students. He talked about seeing a statue of David, a character in the scripture that slays a giant, when he visited Italy. He felt awe, “even though he’s not dressed, which could be seen as pornographic by some.”“The Bible and some of these things are core to us,” he said. “We must stand for these things. … The Bible does have some things that are questionable, but they’re implicit, not explicit. There’s no detail.”Rep.
Superintendent Linford said he, too, is religious and has “admiration for the Bible”; he supports the text being available.That book — which the 2007 film is based on — is filled with stories by teenagers about their lives. The lawmaker displayed passages from the book on the screen during the meeting Monday that included explicit scenes. The book had been reviewed by a Davis committee and kept in middle schools and high schools.Reading what his colleague had projected on the wall, Sen.
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