'Nontheistic' nonprofit calls for Bible ban in Leon schools, citing Moms for Liberty efforts
The Freedom from Religion Foundation, which describes itself as a nontheistic nonprofit, is giving Leon County School District an ultimatum: Ban the Bible or stop banning books altogether.
In an email sent to school board members on July 14, the Freedom from Religion Foundation piled onto a recent successful effort by the local chapter of the conservative group Moms for Liberty to pull five books found in Leon County high schools.
The next school board meeting will be 2 p.m. July 24 to discuss the first official book challenge hearing of "I am Billie Jean King" by Brad Meltzer.
"We are disturbed that the district has chosen to start removing books from school libraries based on content taken out of context at the request of extremist groups like Moms for Liberty," foundation Staff Attorney Christopher Line said in the published email to the district.
Freedom from Religion says the Bible should be banned based on the same reasoning Moms for Liberty presented in their request; "sexually explicit content."
"We write to request that the District either ban the bible based on the criterion of 'sexually explicit content' it has used to ban these books, or cease banning books and return the banned books to school shelves," Line wrote in the email.
Lol. OP never said anything about burning bibles.
OP is also a bigot who hates other people apparently so it's all the same. Racism is not ok, and I don't care if you are Jewish, you have no right to be a bigot
I'm not Jewish. Raised "Christian". And I am also okay with the Bible being banned in schools. In fact, I advocate for it
well I don't, and I don't care for bigotry from either side of the isle
So you agree that no books should be banned and are strongly opposed to banning queer books under the guise of protecting kids?
Then we all agree that the banned books should be unbanned?
Where was the bigotry? Because they said they were Jewish?
The Bible had tons of very inappropriate sexual material in it which is what the Moms for Liberty are trying to make sure does not get into schools. They should be advocating a ban.
No one is bringing race into this. The bible, under the context that Moms for Liberty advocated and lobbied for, should be banned if we are going by their reasoning for banning books.