SW News: In the US state of Utah, a representative is seeking ways to make sure that the law banning pornographic and inappropriate materials in public schools is not used to ban religious texts. This comes in the background of a school district removing the King James Bible from elementary and middle school libraries.

Representative Ken Ivory of the 39th district in the House of Representatives told Fox News that legislative action has to be taken to plug the loopholes that are being used to pursue a “rogue, weaponized and politicized determination” to ban the Bible.

The representative said that he disagreed with the removal of the Holy Bible from schools. "How in the world can a school district use a standard meant to deal with clearly pornographic, obscene, indecent materials and have a committee that can purport to say that standard was used to remove the Bible?"
In order to plug the loopholes, Ivory suggested options such as including the attorney general to clarify the process, and including an exemption for the Holy Bible in the legislature of the state or altering the review procedure. "We have no idea what they looked at, what standard, what data and then they announce a decision without any ratification of an elected accountable board," he said.

"So procedurally, that's very concerning where certainly we don't want weaponized committees in the dark taking potshots at the foundational documents of our civilization,” said the representative, underscoring the importance of the Bible in Western civilization.

It was in March 2022 that the Sensitive Materials in Schools bill was signed into law to ban unwanted materials from public schools. In December of the same year, a parent requested a school district that the King James Bible be subject to review. The parent alleged that the Scripture had portions that were too violent or mentioned incest, rape and adultery. In May, the district decided to remove the Good Book from the elementary and middle schools while it remained in the libraries of high schools.