The guide will, nonetheless, stay on highschool library cabinets.

A college district within the US state of Utah has banned the King James Bible in major colleges for “vulgarity and violence”, BBC reported. The resolution to take away the guide was made by the Davis School District, positioned north of Salt Lake City, after a mum or dad complained that the guide has materials unsuitable for kids.

As per Fox News, the criticism was filed in March after a statewide legislation handed in 2022 allowed residents to problem the books discovered at school libraries.

The mum or dad stated of their criticism that the King James Bible ”has ‘no critical values for minors” as a result of it is pornographic by our new definition”.

”I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient. Now we can all ban books and you don’t even need to read them or be accurate about it. Heck, you don’t even need to see the book,” the parent added in the complaint. 

After a review of the complaint, officials confirmed that they have already removed seven or eight copies of the Bible that they had on their shelves. They did not elaborate on its reasoning or which passages contained “vulgarity or violence”.

However, the Bible will remain on high school library shelves.

That committee decided to “retain the guide at school library circulation solely at the highschool degree primarily based on age appropriateness as a consequence of vulgarity or violence,” according to a statement to NBC News on Friday from Christopher Williams, a spokesman for the district. 

The banning of the Bible comes amid a larger effort by US conservatives to ban teachings on controversial topics such as LGBT rights and racial identity, as per BBC. Many books that pertain to topics such as sexual orientation and identity have already been removed from schools in several states.

A Texas school district, last year, pulled the Bible from library shelves after complaints from members of the public. Last month, students in Kansas requested to have the Bible removed from their school library as well.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, books like Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and the graphic novel Gender Queer have been banned in colleges throughout the state.