Recent efforts to challenge the Bible as obscene and have it removed in elementary schools have been fun but it seems they are taking an unintended twist.
Sen. Ken Ivory, seeing the Bible removed, has now said, “Sure, and while we’re at it let’s take a look at everything else.”
Sen. Todd Weiler agrees and is quoted saying removing religious texts is “a small price to pay” in the greater goal of saving us all from what the government perceives as evil.
If the folks who challenged the Bible thought they could shame these senators into realizing it is banning books that is evil, they badly misjudged. The problem is not whether Sens. Weiler and Ivory hate pornography but do they love power?
Obviously, they do, and now they think they can lock up the entire library in their alleged quest to “protect children.”
What’s to stop them? You can almost smell the glee in their statements that, yes, they can go after everything they don’t like or agree in search of something, anything, that harms children.
Because it’s all about freedom, remember. And “the children.” Must never forget the children.
Charles Trentelman, Ogden
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