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https://www.insider.com/utah-book-ban-makes-it-easier-to-challenge-sex-ridden-bible
Parent thanks Utah for book banning law that makes it 'so much easier' to challenge the 'sex-ridden' Bible
A Utah parent said that a book ban law passed in the state made it "much easier" to request that the Bible be removed from schools for its "sex-ridden" content.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, signed H.B. 374 — also called the Sensitive Materials in Schools Act — into law in March 2022. The bill bans books with "pornographic or indecent" material from schools and school libraries. Critics of the bill say it has been used to disproportionately target books written by people of color and books with LGBTQ themes.
"I noticed there's a gap, though," the parent said in the complaint. "Utah Parents United left off one of the most sex-ridden books around: The Bible. Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide."
"Get this PORN out of our schools! If the books that have been banned so far are any indication for way lesser offenses, this should be a slam dunk," the parent wrote in the complaint.
@vivify saidIt’s a reasonable point, there was more begat’ing in the Bible than at a combined German plumber / hausfrau convention
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https://www.insider.com/utah-book-ban-makes-it-easier-to-challenge-sex-ridden-bible
Parent thanks Utah for book banning law that makes it 'so much easier' to challenge the 'sex-ridden' Bible
A Utah parent said that a book ban law passed in the state made it "much easier" to request that the Bible be removed from schools for ...[text shortened]... ion for way lesser offenses, this should be a slam dunk," the parent wrote in the complaint.
@sh76 saidGenesis 38:8-9:
Except that the Bible never once graphically describes a single sex act. Like. Ever.
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
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@vivify saidThat's extremely tame stuff compared to what we see routinely today in books and TV. Maybe, maybe that's PG-13 stuff (or possibly just PG). It uses the euphemism "slept with" and doesn't describe a sex act at all. In the original Hebrew, it doesn't even use the word "semen" it uses "zerah" which translates to "seed," though I suppose that's neither here nor there.
Genesis 38:8-9:
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.
Very tame stuff indeed.
@sh76 saidEjaculating on the floor after banging your dead brother's wife is tame stuff for kids.
That's extremely tame stuff compared to what we see routinely today in books and TV. Maybe, maybe that's PG-13 stuff (or possibly just PG). It uses the euphemism "slept with" and doesn't describe a sex act at all. In the original Hebrew, it doesn't even use the word "semen" it uses "zerah" which translates to "seed," though I suppose that's neither here nor there.
Very tame stuff indeed.
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Deuteronomy 22:13 - 21:
If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.
If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house.
Tame stuff for kids.
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@vivify saidAside from the death penalty for promiscuity part (and the OT has the death penalty for all kinds of things like carrying in the public domain on the Sabbath), there's nothing in the least objectionable about that by today's standards. Again notice the euphemisms rather than describing sex acts ("approached her" ).
Deuteronomy 22:13 - 21:
If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.
If, however, the charge is ...[text shortened]... thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house.
Tame stuff for kids.
You make not like the Bible for any number of reasons, but there's nothing in it that would be considered "pornographic" by today's standards. Not even close to close.
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@vivify saidThe Bible doesn't approach the level of sexual content in accepted classics like The Scarlet Letter and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Ejaculating on the floor after banging your dead brother's wife is tame stuff for kids.
Edit: Well, okay, maybe it's the same level.
Second edit: And please, no need to go find me some nut who wants to ban The Scarlet Letter in schools too. I think that's just as nuts.