Bible Challenged in Florida School District Due to Explicit Content

metroweekly.com:

A nontheist advocacy organization is demanding that the Bible be banned from schools in a Florida school district, using the same justification that has been used to censor other literary works.Christopher Line, a staff attorney for church and state separation watchdog Freedom From Religion Foundation, formally requested the Bible be removed from library shelves in Leon County schools after the district pulled several other titles for mentioning sexual assault.

The books that were banned include Dead End by Jason Myer, Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk, Lucky by Alice Sebold, Me, Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews, and Push by Sapphire.

All five titles were removed from school library shelves after being challenged by a right-wing activist group that routinely calls for the removal of books that broach topics they deem objectionable, such as LGBTQ identity, race and ethnic identity, racism, and discrimination.The district’s decision to remove the books aligns with a recently approved provision in the state’s expansion of its infamous “Parental Rights in Education” law — dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” by critics — barring discussions of LGBTQ-adjacent content in schools.

Under the law, any person within a county can challenge any book they find to be objectionable, offensive, or inappropriate for minors.