Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.
Those ‘guidelines’ are pretty wide open. The Bible certainly makes the grade for a ban.
Actually though, can we get some malicious compliance? Schools banning the Bible based on rules written by Christian conservatives would be hilarious.
“We have considered several excerpts, and deemed this book unfit for schools. The book opens with everybody naked, and goes on to feature violence on a massive scale, as well as some weird incest, and a man who collected two hundred foreskins. Frankly, we believe that this book should have never been on the shelves here at Li’l Tykes Elementary.”
utah did repeatedly until they changed the law to explicitly allow the bible even though it does not meet the standards.
This is from 2024.
https://www.newsweek.com/bible-banned-texas-schools-over-sexually-explicit-material-2004170
Lot was drugged and raped by his daughters. Surely that meets the standard for banning.
Not in Alabama