Posted on 01/10/2008 4:38:55 AM PST by Stoat
ST. LOUIS — A rural school district's long-standing practice of allowing the distribution of Bibles to grade school students is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
An attorney for the southeastern Missouri school district said Wednesday he will appeal the judge's injunction against the practice.
For more than three decades, the South Iron School District in Annapolis, 120 miles southwest of St. Louis in the heart of the Bible Belt, allowed representatives of Gideons International to give away Bibles in fifth-grade classrooms.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit two years ago on behalf of four sets of parents. In August, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a temporary injunction against the practice.
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Well, in this day and age I have to side with the judge. If they allowed Bibles, next they’d have to allow Qurans to be distributed to the children.
I don’t like the ACLU but shouldn’t those kids have a Bible given to them already by their parents from the time they were first able to read it?
Ping
I’m assuming this is a public school. If so I’m surprised this practice lasted as long as it did. It just opens the door to every group under the sun insisting they have a right to pass out propaganda to children...the Koran, the book of Scientology, the Gorean Global Warming Bible... where would it end? Better to allow churches to distribute Bibles OUTSIDE of the public classrooms.
Since they have been doing this for such a long time, my guess is that anyone who wanted one could take one and anyone who did not could turn it down...and I am okay with that.
My guess is also that if CAIR showed up offering to give away Qurans, that very few, if any, would be accepted.
Let the good folks distribute the Bibles either off school property or else door to door. I agree that id Bibles could be distributed then so could the Koran.
Agreed.
Public Ed ping
This is an easy fix... call them condoms.
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Christ did have something to say about those who sit in the seat of Moses. The first human to hand out the LAW.
Hah! You bet me by 18 seconds!
So what? Obviously, this judge has never bothered to read Amendment I. Again,
No act of Congress here.
And they would have to allow tracts from earth worshipers, such as Al Gore’s movie, whoops, we forgot, they are doing that. Earth worship has become the establishment religion, just what our founders feared has happened, one sect is being paid for by everyone else’s taxes.
of course they did, it interferes with teaching kids how to be homo’s
Well, perhaps they should try to hand out Korans, then when that is allowed, sue for violation of 14th Amendment, and separation of church and state rules.
So you think in California and other states they haven’t supplied Qurans as well as prayer time/rooms?
May God have mercy on these children and our nation.
God bless the Gideons.
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