The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children. And the Book of Mormon could be next. The Davis School District north of Salt Lake City banned the Bible from its elementary and middle schools in response to a parental complaint. After news of the Bible ban, the district said it received a complaint about the Book of Mormon. This all comes as parent activists throughout the United States sow alarm about how sex is talked about in schools.
One can only hope. IMO the idea that any book can be banned shouldn’t exist in a free society.
i think you can make a good argument for at least a handful of restrictions (probably we shouldn’t let, say, manuals on how to commit terrorism freely circulate in libraries) but yeah, i’m pretty close to an absolutist here. one of the very points of creating institutions like libraries is that information can be freely accessed by all; book bans are categorically incompatible with that, especially when these institutions are funded by the people for their use.
If individual parents can opt to have anything removed, I had a feeling it would come to this and this might put the brakes on the whole thing.
One can only hope. IMO the idea that any book can be banned shouldn’t exist in a free society.
i think you can make a good argument for at least a handful of restrictions (probably we shouldn’t let, say, manuals on how to commit terrorism freely circulate in libraries) but yeah, i’m pretty close to an absolutist here. one of the very points of creating institutions like libraries is that information can be freely accessed by all; book bans are categorically incompatible with that, especially when these institutions are funded by the people for their use.