School District Must Ban Bibles Next

Freedom From Religion Foundation ✒ Leon Co. (Fla.) school district must ban bibles next.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is demanding that Leon County Schools must ban the bible due to its sexual and violent content after the school system has banned several books at the request of Moms for Liberty.

FFRF, a national state/church watchdog, has learned that the district recently banned five books from its libraries due to “sexually explicit content.”

According to the district’s apparent policy and practice, if a complainant brings a book to the superintendent, he will “review them personally and [they will be] removed.” Superintendent Rocky Hanna has explained that “if we come across those we deem are in violation of state statute, we will remove them immediately,” and the books recently removed were “black-and-white, cut-and-dry, need-to-be-removed.”

Among the banned books is Push, by Sapphire, a fictional book about a teenager who has two children and HIV by her father due to rape. The book was the basis of the 2009 Academy Award-winning film “Precious.” Lucky by Alice Sebold, also banned by the district, is a memoir about how the author’s life changed after she was raped as an 18-year-old.

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