{"id":242614,"date":"2023-04-19T09:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=242614"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:14:25","slug":"utah-parent-tries-to-get-bible-banned","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/utah-parent-tries-to-get-bible-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah parent tries to get bible banned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News network tried to justify telling lies on the basis of free speech, and ended up paying $787m because ‘lies have consequences<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, many US parents want to ban books to ‘protect’ their children, forgetting that the internet exists and children don’t read books anyway.<\/p>\n

To celebrate Utah’s new Sensitive Materials in Schools Act, one parent wrote in <\/a>to demand a ban for ‘one of the most sex-ridden books around, the bible,’ which is packed with ‘incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide.’<\/p>\n

‘Get this PORN out of our schools!’, wrote the parent. ‘If the books that have been banned so far are any indication\u2026 this should be a slam dunk.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-242614","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/242614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}