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The restriction of religious texts in U.S. public schools, including the Bible, was referred to as a "Bible ban". [104] In June 2023, the Davis School District in Utah banned the Bible in Elementary and Middle Schools due to "vulgarity or violence" inappropriate for the age group. [105] [106] [107]
A rabbi, a Baptist church pastor, a born-and-raised Catholic and an atheist walked into a Palm Beach County School Board meeting Wednesday. They were all there for the same reason: to talk about ...
Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), [1] was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp, on behalf of his son Ellery Schempp, and declared that school-sponsored Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the United States was unconstitutional.
Deerfield Beach resident sent all 62 superintendents in Florida a request to ban the Bible to protest House Bill 1467, which was signed into law. Under new Florida law, activist requests 62 school ...
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This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
The Palm Beach County School Board will hear a parent's request to remove Bibles from school libraries in the wake of book-banning efforts by Moms for Liberty.
Banned in the US in 1821 for obscenity, then again in 1963. This was the last book ever banned by the US government. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [279] [280] [127] See also Memoirs v. Massachusetts. Candide: Voltaire: 1759 1959 Novel Seized by US Customs in 1930 for ...