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Both boards cited fears that the Gideon Bibles (actually, New Testaments which are typically placed on tables in a classroom for students who may choose to pick one up) would be misconstrued as the school's endorsement of a specific religion and violate the Establishment Clause.

Both schools are scared of the ACLU.
1 posted on 11/29/2007 12:36:33 PM PST by Sopater
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To: Sopater

Many of the people that grew up to make this country great learned to read from the bible.


2 posted on 11/29/2007 12:45:25 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Sopater

Their cohorts in Beijing would be so proud.........


3 posted on 11/29/2007 12:46:32 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Sopater
"violate the Establishment Clause"

Yah, the part the says "..or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..

4 posted on 11/29/2007 12:48:28 PM PST by drc43 (Defeat is within our grasp... Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Sopater

We need to get rid of the federel statute allowing the ACLU to collect their fees from the government when they sue government entities. That would put a real hurt on their anti-American activities.


5 posted on 11/29/2007 12:53:33 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Sopater

It really is time for Americans to rise up and take our country back while we still have a country to take back.

I suggest starting with the ACLU - those perfidious worms and destroyers of American culture and traditional values.


6 posted on 11/29/2007 12:58:29 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Sopater

Will everyone be okay with this when Muslim groups come in and hand out Korans to the children to take home?
Atheists and Dawkin’s book?
Catholics and a book on the Saints?


8 posted on 11/29/2007 1:02:11 PM PST by mountainbunny
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To: Sopater; metmom; SoftballMominVA; Amelia

Last night and yesterday, we had an organization at our school called FUTURENOW (google it-futurenow.us)

Their goal: positive thinking, good choices and, prepare yourself, Christ! Yes! In a public school! With BIBLES to give away!

I know this may come as a shock that such would happen in a public school, but when you live in the Rural South, and I do mean RURAL South, you can have this sort of thing happen and not get the ACLU all bent out of shape.

There are some good things that happen in schools once and a while, and the ACLU needs to chill. You are not required to take a copy, but to be fair, there should be a Koran too, which you can pick up IF YOU CHOOSE. (I am not endorsing Islam, merely making a point)


9 posted on 11/29/2007 1:08:51 PM PST by shag377 (De gustibus non disputandum est)
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To: Sopater

They’d probably attempt top ban handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution, too.


13 posted on 11/29/2007 1:45:52 PM PST by polymuser (There is one war and one enemy.)
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Yankees and carpetbaggers are destroying the NC I grew up in.... Sigh.


14 posted on 11/29/2007 1:47:12 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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The Cumberland County Public Schools notified elementary principals Nov. 19 to prohibit Bibles or other "poselytizing texts" from being handed out

Over-under on whether the district mandates the showing of Algore's 'proselytizing' pack of propaganda for the 'religion' of AGW?

15 posted on 11/29/2007 1:52:16 PM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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The ACLU has twisted the words of seperation of religion and state. They need to be stopped. I wish the parents would take their schools back or their kids and grandkids will be knocking at their doors one of these days to arrest them. In a Hillary world, family loyalty doesn’t count. The opposite is true.


16 posted on 11/29/2007 1:57:39 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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Even in Catholic School they just didn’t give out Bibles. I guess you could have gotten one from one of the Priests or Nuns, but most families had one on the coffee table anyway. Don’t non-Catholic families have Bibles and must receive free Bibles too. This socialistic environment is getting worse. Go out and buy a Bible for the family. That would seriously solve this problem.


18 posted on 11/29/2007 2:27:27 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Sopater
The Gideons passed out pocket size Bibles to anyone who wanted one in my elementary school. It didn’t seem to scar anyone for life.
19 posted on 11/29/2007 2:29:06 PM PST by colorado tanker (I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
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To: Sopater

What happened to freedom of religion? The left is taking away our 2nd amendment rights, now they’re after the first.

In Saudi Arabia, Bibles are confiscated as well. The left takes another step closer to Shariah-fying our nation...


21 posted on 11/29/2007 4:02:05 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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