SATIRE

There are 1,648 banned books in the United States and even more that are challenged. According to the American Library Association, books are usually challenged because of “a desire to protect children from ‘inappropriate’ sexual content or ‘offensive’ language.”
Florida state legislature, in the wake of its Stop W.O.K.E Act, decided to continue banning books that are considered “pornographic, violent or inappropriate” from schools. As a result, the Bible, alongside 565 other notable titles like “The Bluest Eye” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has been banned.
Proponents of the ban cite the Song of Solomon, an erotic poem in the Old Testament, “How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit,” as well as Chapter 19 in the Book of Judges, where a Levite rapes “a concubine,” and then later dices her up into twelve parts.
The Bible even gives instructions on how sex should be had. For example, in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he said that married couples should have sex regularly as to “not deprive one another” so that “Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
These passages– along with a myriad of other sexually-charged verses– are the main concerns that have been brought up by both parents and educators.
A mother from Brevard County is “grateful” her children will be “shielded from these graphic depictions of sex,” while a first-grade teacher from Miami-Dade County says that “I support the First Amendment and love the Constitution, but not when it allows the violation and rewiring of our children’s brains.”
“Saturating our children’s eyes with pornography is beyond inappropriate,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “The Bible is, unfortunately, yet another example of this. I applaud my fellow lawmakers for doing the right thing by protecting our youth.”