Republican lawmakers attack Utah school district that banned the Bible for ‘embarrassing’ the state

One legislator said it was accepting “atheism and hedonism” to remove the Bible. Davis School District officials said they just followed the law legislators wrote.

(Tribune file photo) The Bible pictured at the Utah Capitol on Wednesday, January 4, 2017. A review committee in Davis School District determined the religious text should be banned in elementary and middle school libraries. On Monday, June 12, 2023, Utah lawmakers railed the district for that decision.

Republican lawmakers attack Utah school district that banned the Bible for ‘embarrassing’ the state

One legislator said it was accepting “atheism and hedonism” to remove the Bible. Davis School District officials said they just followed the law legislators wrote.

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