A Texas school district is pulling the Bible from its library shelves.
It's among some 40 titles now under review in the Keller
independent school district in Texas.
Along with Anne Frank's diary in illustrated version.
Right now, Keller ISDS administration is asking our campus staff and
librarians to review books that were challenged last year to
determine if they meet the requirements of the new policy.
Books will be returned to the libraries as soon as it is confirmed that they comply
with the new policy.
So Lisa, this school district apparently got accused of having books with sexual
content so they put under review all of these books.
And there were three parent complaints about the Bible citing,
one was withdrawn citing sexual content and violence.
My question is, were these people, these anonymous individuals asleep when they
learned that kindergarten through second graders were being taught across
the country, sexually explicit content like body parts in vivid detail?
You don't believe me, google what they teach in New Nork city private schools.
>> Maybe you don't want to believe her.
These Fox News hosts led by Kayleigh McEnany there.
They will not stand for these book bans anymore.
Of the Bible, yes she was there on that number with the rest of her co-host there
and they were complaining about big brother coming and taking out books.
Actually, reviewing books that in our children's classrooms I mean the Bible,
they missed completely missed the point of course, all irony involved.
In fact, they continue complaining.
Watch this.
>> [INAUDIBLE] point the book genderqueer the Washington
post hardly a conservative publication as you know.
This is how they described one of the scenes in that book that was also
targeted.
A sexual fantasy of the authors is depicted in which an apparently teenage
youth is about to engage in a sexual act with an older bearded man.
But you can trust that Emily with the Bible,
the most read book in all of human history.
In fact, over the last 50 years, nearly four billion copies have been sold,
compare that Terry Potter, which is number three at 400 million.
Not only that foundation of the world's largest religion,
a classic historical text.
If you don't believe it in the religious context,
at least we can be appreciated in that context.
But that's the one we're removing.
>> The fact that because one person or
three people put the Bible on that is absolutely horrifying.
This is when the school administrators need to step up and say, absolutely not.
You know what, we don't need a committee right now to discuss this for 40 minutes.
It's going back on the shelf.
But every day without the Bible is a day lost.
And that Bible should be back on the shelves.
>> Agreed. >> It's a day lost.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Every day without the bible is a day
lost.
>> Ever reading the bible.
>> Good. >> There's an illustration of supremacy
there, it's the most read book ever, is the most sold book ever.
So therefore it can't be taken off the shelves.
It's a constant reminder that they think they're better than other religions.
>> Our religion is number one.
>> Okay, so let's note a couple of things here.
Number one, if you notice Kayleigh McEnany said you could check that out in New York
private schools.
So we're not talking about public schools.
So you're pretending that we're talking about public schools.
But your examples from a private school.
You're, all the legislation you're passing is about public schools.
All right.
That gets to the main point.
You're the one who wanted to ban books.
You're the one who actually passed legislation in place like Tennessee.
They had a book banning in Tennessee, okay?
That's the right way.
That wasn't us.
And I, but I will confess that on one of the videos where we covered
their book bans, I said sexually explicit and violent imagery.
Well then they should ban the Bible because it's filled with it, right?
And now that one to three parents, as they said,
complain about their like what we're gonna do now just listen to parents?
That's what you said.
You said [INAUDIBLE],
one to three right-wing parents are complaining about this book.
That's like one of the prizes and etc, and it's like revealed.
But I got one to three [INAUDIBLE] who are complaining.
And then you notice what she said.
We don't need a committee, you just put it right back in, okay?
But wait a minute, you guys said we need a committee to ban books [LAUGH].
So now when all of a sudden it replies to the Bible, all of a sudden you're like,
no, that's it.
Forget it.
Okay, banned all the other books, but not our book, okay?
Now, if the bible didn't have any sex or violence in it, you might say,
hey, that's fair.
[INAUDIBLE] it's Dr Seuss, I mean, it's Jesus in her heart.
[LAUGH] it's totally benign.
Jr is there any sex or violence in the Bible?
>> Just a little bit.
I'm gonna give you this quick take on it at least there.
But I wanna remind you what Kayleigh McEnany said in that last clip.
She said some of those books are worth being banned.
And apparently teenage youth is about to engage in a sexual act with an older
bearded man.
Here's a moment from the Bible Genesis Chapter 19:30 to 38 really fast.
Then Lot left Zoar, and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters who
were with him, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar.
He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
And the firstborn said to the younger, our father is old, and
there's no man on earth to have relations with us after the manner of all the earth.
Let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him,
so that we may preserve the lineage of our father, let's have sex with our dad.
So they made their father drink wine that night, and
the firstborn went in and had relations with her father.
He did not know when she laid down or when she arose.
Somehow, on the next day, the firstborn said to the younger.
Indeed, last night I had relations with my father.
Let us make him drink wine tonight also, so that you may go in and
have relations with him, so that we may preserve the lineage of our father.
So they made their father drink wine that night also.
Then the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she laid down or
when she arose.
Lastly, therefore, both the daughters of Lot were pregnant by their father.
The firstborn bore a son and he called him Moab.
He is the father of Moabites to this day.
The younger also gave birth to a son and called his name Ben-Ammi.
He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
Isn't that a great story?
>> Well, I mean Bible passages advocating for incest or
as the right apparently refers to it.
Family values.
>> Yeah.
So if they had put that in a modern book that said, hey,
by the way, you shouldn't hate black people or gay people or something.
And then they put in a story about how two underage girls slept with their dad,
the dad didn't notice and they both became pregnant.
And then that was a great thing that should be celebrated.
The right wing would lose their minds.
They would what is this?
This is the worst story I've ever heard.
And by the way, they're not wrong.
That is a horrible story, and it's right there in the Bible.
You gonna let to certain graders read that?
[INAUDIBLE].
>> And they don't even process the hypocrisy.
They see it as different things they're talking,
can you imagine this book banning our next story?
We encourage banning of books that talk about transgender and gay themes.
They don't even link one to the other.
I believe that even in that statement to say that they mostly believe in just
banning books or considering banning them that are on transgender and LGBQ themes.
They literally are saying the part out loud now when faced with the fact that,
when you're opening a can of worms of banning books,
you are now making it so that maybe we're going to ban
books on anything that might be offensive at all possibly your Holy Bible is gone.
My gosh, now maybe we made a mistake.
How about stop being so reactionary and live and let live?
>> You want to open the can of worms, but just take one.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Yeah.
>> And by the way, they removed Anne Frank's diary in some of the schools.
unreal.