Book Ban Backfire: Texas School Forced to Pull the bible

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Book Ban Backfire: Texas School District Forced to Pull the Bible

A Texas school district has pulled dozens of challenged books from its library shelves—including the Bible—just before the start of the academic year under a new policy introduced by conservative leaders.

“Attached is a list of all books that were challenged last year. By the end of today, I need all books pulled from the library and classrooms,” Keller Independent School District executive curriculum director Jennifer Price instructed principals in an email Tuesday, obtained by The Texas Tribune.“Once this has been completed, please email me a confirmation. We need to ensure this action is taken by the end of today.”

The books were snatched up due to a new compliance policy the school district’s board adopted on Aug. 8, local outlet WFAA Dallas reported. According to The Dallas Morning News, Keller spokesperson Bryce Nieman said that the new policy requires every once-challenged book to go through a review process. Keller associate Superintendent John Allison said each book would be returned to its respective library if it’s found to be in compliance with district guidelines. However, officials say they don’t know how long the process may take.

www.thedailybeast.com/book-ban-backfires-with-texas-kellar-independent-school-district-forced-to-pull-the-bible-anne-frank-book

[apple]

The age of intollerance.

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Aug 18, 2022 21:04:31 GMT -5 apple said:

The age of intollerance.

Exactly.  Only State Sponsored opinions allowed now

[apple]

Aug 18, 2022 21:34:50 GMT -5 fuzzems said:

Aug 18, 2022 21:04:31 GMT -5 apple said:

The age of intollerance.

Exactly.  Only State Sponsored opinions allowed now

I suppose you can not force people to be tollerant. Just like you can't force people not to be hateful racists.

[Deleted]

Yeah, no one needs that racist nonsense taught to children.

[Deleted]

^^^^idiot.

[angellady58]

The Holy Bible and The Diary Of Anne Frank had no business being banned. This goes against the will of God'
and is disgusting among other things.

[RichardInTN]

Unless the Qur'an, the Torah, and the religious books of all other known religions are there as well... I don't have a problem with the Bible being removed.

The Bible should only be in a government operated public school for reasons of classes on world religions.

Separation of Church and State... that sort of thing.

[romaniprincess]

To me the key passage in the original post is 'a new policy introduced by conservative leaders.'

This shows (in case anyone was still biased, ignorant or deluded enough to believe otherwise) that the right is every bit as intolerant and authoritarian as the left.

And Richard, you claim to believe in unrestricted freedom of speech and yet you support the ban on the bogus grounds of 'separation of church and state.'

You know, read the US Constitution and it says 'no establishment of religion.' It doesn't say anything about banning religious books (or any other kind of books for that matter.)

[Springschick]

The Bible is chock full of violence, sexual references and racial references; all things that cause people to complain about books.