It is to my great relief that Canyons and Davis School Districts have begun removing sexually explicit books from their schools’ libraries. These books are a blight on healthy development of our youth. My only complaint is that the ban does not go nearly far enough to protect kids from indecency and sexual radicalization.
In fact, there is one book on the shelves of public school libraries across the nation so obscene that respectable American parents cannot stomach it any longer. This book contains depictions of sex so gratuitous and detailed that none are safe from its obscene reach. It has spread with missionary fervor, and its advocates promote the book to even the youngest among us. (Not content to limit their audience to those who can read, its advocates have shamelessly taken to reading the text aloud to children!)
What is the title of this book, you ask? This warped text is called “The Holy Bible,” and its naughty imagination knows no bounds.
If other people want their kids to read lust-drenched passages about “lovers whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like those of horses,” (Ezekiel 23:18-21), more power to them! Just so long as they keep the titillating content where it belongs: at church, or perhaps in family home evening. (After all, we know from experience that teens are most comfortable talking about the intimate details of sex with their parents, or better yet, preachers.)
But the X-rated scenes don’t stop there. The Bible contains scenes of incest and pre-meditated date rape (Genesis 19:5); voyeurism and adultery (2 Samuel 11); the perverted use of religious icons as sex toys (Ezekiel 16:17); extended descriptions of women’s breasts as playthings (Proverbs 5:19; Song of Solomon 1:13; et al.); genital mutilation (Exodus 4:25) and more. In one egregious episode, the Bible even falsely threatens that not even abstinence will protect teens from unwanted pregnancy. From nonconsensual sex with Angels to Immaculate Conception, the lasciviousness goes on for hundreds of pages, each episode more provocative and “kinky” than the last.
Some would say that the Holy Bible has moral and historical significance that outweighs its lewdness, or that we have to respect the beliefs of the sexual deviants who promote it. Others say that it contains incomparable “poetic value” and has “divine origins,” so that we have to consider the seminal text as a whole, not just its more questionable parts.
But these are, of course, just excuses to smuggle nakedly salacious content into our children’s innocent minds. I truly fear we are entering a world where our teens turn away from their healthy TikTok, SnapChat, and Instagram habits, only to scour the darkly-lit corners of public school libraries, seeking out the pornographic promise of the printed word.
Surely we can all agree: If we’re serious about protecting kids from the excesses of our sex-obsessed culture and keeping those libraries as empty as possible — and I truly believe that we are — then we have to ban the Bible too. Anything less is sheer hypocrisy.
McKay Holland, West Jordan