Book banning lawmaker is sad

 Book ban lawmaker “very sad” that a parent is using his law to ban the “sex-ridden” Bible

In response to the group’s efforts, Utah lawmakers passed H.B. 374, which requires public K–12 schools to remove books containing “pornographic or indecent material.”

Included in the December 11 Bible challenge was an eight-page list of passages the parent says are considered unacceptable under the law.

“Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,” the parent, who noted that they have actually read the Bible, wrote. “You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”

“Get this PORN out of our schools,” they continued. “If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offenses, this should be a slam dunk.”

Funny how these people that make absurd rules and laws have a really hard time following those exact rules and laws when it applies to them.

“There was a purpose to the bill and this kind of stuff, it’s very unfortunate,” he said

Yup, that purpose was for you to cherry pick what you want to ban. He can dish it out but can't take it. What a maroon.

Everything else aside, wasn’t the alleged purpose to prevent indoctrination of children? Nothing does that more than a literal religious text. What was he thinking? Saying something like this goes against the purpose of the bill is legit just admitting the purpose was cherry-picking, right?

Not in their eyes. You have to remember that when you are raised religious, that becomes your default world view. You see that way as "the way things are supposed to be" and so in his mind, he's "keeping the order" and thinks he's using his position to get more people back to following God so that it will make the world a better place or something to that effect.

He's coming at this from a position of "everything (I think) the Bible says is what should make the best laws" and so he thinks that means banning anything sexually immoral, deviant, etc. but unlike a good number of the people in this comments section, he has never looked into other ways of living because to consider living in a way that he thinks is immoral would be to sin. So without that outside perspective, he thinks he's doing good, when he's actually both causing societal downfall and also shooting himself in the foot with people calling to ban the Bible as an act of malicious compliance. He likely didn't think until that moment about the Bible having the same kind of objectionable stuff in it that he was trying to ban in the first place because to him, it's the default.

Exactly. A non-believer understands they're using religion as a tool to indoctrinate children to their own ends, and that this law is not useful to that end.

But for someone raised religious who really believes, for them to see what they are doing is indoctrinating children would require him to entertain the idea that he himself was indoctrinated, a thought that his brain will immediately discard for clashing with his worldview.

There's an old saying... I'm not sure if I remember it clearly but it went something like "fuck your feelings"