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Rev. Dan Odell wore his clerical collar to address lawmakers on the Joint Judiciary Committee on Tuesday evening in Casper.

The Methodist pastor wanted the committee to know that if a bill to ban books containing sexually-explicit material from the children’s sections of Wyoming libraries passed as currently written, it could block minors from one book many lawmakers might say is their favorite: the Bible.

To illustrate his point, Odell read aloud some of the religious text’s more graphic passages, like this one from the Book of Ezekiel :

“She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of

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