A school board in Arizona reacted to a page covering contraception in a high school biology book that they disgreed with much like a small child would–by ripping it out:
After a crusading religious group showed up at the Gilbert, Arizona school board meeting with three Republican state senators to complain about the presence of a mention of abortion in an honors biology text book, the board voted to get rid of that material. It was determined that the most efficient way to remove the offending material is to literally remove it – as in, tear the whole page out of the book.
We get it–you start telling kids about abortions, and then they start having them for fun. Cause, you know, kids will be kids.
Team Blackness also discussed a Florida man serving jail time for trying to start a “race war” and the questionable motives of Domino’s Pizza’s founder.
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J R in WV
If you did that with the Bible, you would wind up with a comic-book length document – oh, wait…
Cacti
Gilbert, AZ is the buckle of the Book of Mormon belt in the Grand Canyon State.
No surprise that this would happen there.
glaukopis
Rachel Maddow did a piece on this and has posted the missing pages on her website, I believe.
Tree With Water
These Arizona birdbrains remind me of that scene in The Music Man, in which the mayor’s wife spits out the name ‘Balzac’ while demanding that certain books be banned from the town library.
NonyNony
@glaukopis:
Well there will be at least one page of that textbook that gets read by all of the students now.
John M. Burt
@NonyNony: Bullseye.
And in years to come, the ragged edges of the torn-out page will serve as an enduring lesson.
Calouste
So, this concerns RWNJs being upset with contraception being taught in a honors biology textbook. Can we conclude from that that students who don’t take honors biology in Arizona don’t get taught about contraception at all?
rumpole
Olson’s standard book of british birds. The expurgated version.
PurpleGirl
I wonder if the contraception information was on one side of the sheet, what was on the reverse side. Was it the continuation and end of the contraception section or was it another topic, which will now be missing from the book?
Pee Cee
@rumpole:
I can’t buy that! It’s torn!
azlib
The idiot board members got voted out of office last week. The news now is whether they will order the pages ripped out before the new board members are sworn in.
Rasputin's Evil Twin
Why not just burn the book? Them good Christian kids don’t need no librul science stuff. Just burn every book the board doesn’t like.
Don’t mind me – I’m from a dying town where a literacy test for school board candidates would disqualify 80% of them. Oddly, it’s the dumbest clods who want to be in charge of edercatshun. Is that because the smart people don’t want to deal with the clods.