LIBRARY BOOKS: What about the Bible?

I’m intrigued by the letters in the Coeur d’Alene Press on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Several of them express anxiety about naughty library books full of porn that our children might see.

One such book contains the following:

“Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins;” there is quite a bit of talk about breasts in this section of the book.

There’s another section in this book which describes how two young girls get their father drunk in order to get pregnant by him. That’s pretty obviously contrary to the values of North Idaho.

Plenty of gratuitous murder and genocide can be found in this book, too.

Is this the kind of book we want in our libraries?

JOHN D. SAHR

Otis Orchards, Wash.

P.S.: Obviously I’m referring to the Bible; the particular quote is from the Song of Solomon, 7:3, KJV. 

The “daughters getting their father drunk” story is about Lot and his daughters, Genesis 19:31-38. The son of the younger daughter was named Ammon, which reminds me of a certain quasi-political figure/fugitive in Idaho.