Parents challenged the Book of Mormon, the Quran in this Utah school district. Here’s what happened next.
A collection of copies of the Book of Mormon is seen on the shelf in Millcreek, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. The religious text, along with the Quran, was challenged in Davis School District, which recently made final determinations with both complaints in January 2024.— which was later reversed — a Utah school district has been trying to better separate the wheat from the chaff in determining which religious books can stay on library shelves.
The parent said they were frustrated by what books were being removed from K-12 libraries — mainly those around the LGBTQ community — under the law that banned anything deemed “pornographic or indecent.” So they filed, saying that if the other titles were being pulled so should the religious text for being “one of the most sex-ridden books around.”
A volunteer with Muslims Giving Back reads her Quran in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on Monday, April 27, 2020.— cited Utah law, saying they are not in violation of the standards. There was no elaboration beyond that. The final decisions reads only, “retained.”
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