Summary
Rightwing groups across the US are driving a wave of legislation to restrict books in school and public libraries, targeting content deemed “sexually explicit” or “obscene,” often affecting LGBTQ+ and race-related titles.
Texas leads with 31 bills and 538 book bans in the 2023–24 school year.
Proposed laws, like Texas Senate Bill 13, shift book selection power from librarians to parent-led advisory boards.
Critics, including librarians and legal scholars, warn these efforts amount to censorship, risk violating First Amendment rights, and reduce access in underserved communities.
There’s no specific verse condemning it explicitly, but the overall arc of Abraham’s story is that whenever he tries to be “clever” and fulfill God’s promise on his own there are bad consequences, in this case the soured relationship between Hagar and Sarah, the need of God’s intervention to save his son from death in the desert, and the origin of yet another people that would later antagonize the Israelites, the Arabs.
So, like, it’s just your interpretation?
Not just mine, AFAIK it’s the most common one.
I think you’re missing the point of this conversation a little bit buddy. Go back and read all of the comments you’ve replied to and see if you can figure out what you’re missing from the commentary.