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Florida Man Seeks "Bible Ban"

"Since July of 2021, more than 200 books have been banned in various school districts across Florida, the state with the third-highest number of school book banning incidents in the U.S. This comes as the Florida legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis have passed House Bill 1467, which allows members of the public to challenge and ban books available in school classrooms and libraries, and a swath of "anti-woke" legislation purportedly aimed at empowering parents to protect their children's impressionable minds.

With that in mind, local political stunt activist Chaz Stevens of Deerfield Beach has taken it upon himself to add another book to the lengthy list: the Bible. This week, in letters sent to superintendents in eight school districts in Florida — including Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) and Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) — Stevens, an avowed atheist, petitions the districts to ban the Christian Bible from classrooms and libraries, citing its inclusion of inappropriate topics."

"If they're gonna ban books, then the whole library should be in play. My hope — and it's a longshot — is that they will apply their own standards to themselves and ban the Bible," Stevens tells New Times.

Free-speech and literary-expression advocates have been sounding the alarm about what they see as a bureaucratic, authoritarian attack on education in Florida, particularly after recent news that the state rejected 54 math textbooks from the curriculum for allegedly containing prohibited topics such as "Critical Race Theory." When the state went so far as banning math books, Stevens says, he was inspired to use the same bureaucracy to strike back against the conservative wave with an operation he calls "Eff Off Jesus."

fishline79 7 Mar 3
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Praise, and success, be his. The Bible (rules of English don't go away for mockery) is filthiest book in all of history. Try The Tao Te Ching. Much more civilized and fun, like poetry. As for FL, and this nation, it is not a bad thing to torch both at this point. The anger is epic.

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The bible has lots of pornography that should qualify it
for banning.

BDair Level 8 Mar 3, 2023

That's what he said later in the article. He cited various examples.

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Considering the bibly has, in just one story: people wanting to fuck male angels, which could be seen as homoerotic; genocide; daughters fucking their drunken father, I think a ban is totally within the realm of books being assailed.

The "Angel" example reminds me of "the Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie.

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