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When Utah’s Republican lawmakers decided to clamp down on ‘pornographic or indecent’ texts, they won’t have had the Old Testament in mind, writes Arwa Mahdawi

When Utah’s Republican lawmakers decided to clamp down on ‘pornographic or indecent’ texts, they won’t have had the Old Testament in mindhen I was a teenager, I read Genesis for the first and only time. It was quite the revelation.

An anonymous parent in the US agrees. A Utah school district recently removed the King James Bible from school libraries for containing

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