Category: Banned

The Bible Told Me So – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Right-Wing wants books banned but children taught about the sex, violence, and criminal behavior in the Bible

A recent candidate for congress in Colorado Springs, Rob Rogers, offered school board officials and superintendents the insight that there is more sex and violence in the bible than any of the books ASD 20 has marked for banning. Rogers, who is an Air Force veteran and data scientist, argued that the bible meets or exceeds what the district’s protesting parents are using as a legal definition of obscenity, and it, too, needed to be removed. Rogers ran for congress in Colorado’s 14th District and was defeated, but his children attend an ASD 20 school. His request to remove the bible was not immediately answered, though he insists the demands from parents to take other books off the shelves happened quickly after they complained their standards of decency were offended.

Source: The Bible Told Me So – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Texas prisons ban The Color Purple and Monty Python – but Mein Kampf is fine | US news | The Guardian

What is or is not permitted in Texas prisons is largely decided by mailroom staff, the Dallas Morning News found. Sometimes the binding or covers are the problem.

Texas prisons ban The Color Purple and Monty Python – but Mein Kampf is fine | US news | The Guardian

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‘Write no more’: 10 books that were banned | Books | The Guardian

Love’s labour’s lost … Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel Beloved was declared too sexually explicit for schools.

via ‘Write no more’: 10 books that were banned | Books | The Guardian