MAGA supporters tricked into agreeing with school Bible ban
Maus by Art Spiegelman) from its curriculum. In Texas, several schools have removed books from libraries that cover LGBTQ issues and Critical Race Theory.Related: Meghan McCain slams “bizarre, incoherent” Whoopi Goldberg over Holocaust commentsAs more school across the US discuss the banning of books, two internet pranksters have probed the beliefs of some of those in Texas.Comedy duo Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler are known online as The Good Liars.
A video they shared on TikTok and Twitter finds them asking people in Houston about a certain book.They inform them it contains a story about two daughters who get their father drunk in order to have sex with him and become pregnant.Those interviewed are disgusted and immediately respond that such a book has no place in any school library.“Why do kids need to read that?” asks one man wearing a MAGA hat.The only problem is that the book in question is the Bible.
The story reference comes from Genesis 19:30-38. It’s about Lot and his two daughters, who live in a cave together.As “there is no man around here to give us children”, the older sister decides they have no option but to sleep with their elderly father.
Lot eventually has two sons, Moab and Ben-Ammi, with his two daughters.There’s a lot of talk about banning books in schools, but we were surprised these republicans wanted to ban the Bible.
