[NormsRevenge]

Now if it was Korans..

Judge Perry is a 1994 Clinton appointee

[Prost1]

Arrest the judge!

End judicial tyranny!

[My2Cents]

saying it improperly promotes Christianity.

Yeah, well I think U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Perry improperly promotes corrosive secularism and the social and moral nihilism it produces.

[GSlob]

There must be the right not to be bibled at [ditto for being koraned, torahed, rigvedaed and so on] against one's will. The least they could have done was to ask for the willing recipients and hand the bibles to them only.

[smoothsailing]

Judge Perry would look the other way on free condoms from NAMBLA, I suspect.

[msnimje]

Or condoms.

[micro-faraday]

Perhaps that explains why he seems to have more than passing familiarity with the U.S. Constitution.

[Huntress]

Sheesh. I still 2 or 3 little Gideon Bibles from when I was in school 20 years ago. I'm not particularly religious, but I was never offended or threatened when I was handed a Bible.

[LiteKeeper]

Not THAT book! Oh my!

[dayglored]

> Now if it was Korans...

An interesting speculation.

But suppose it actually WAS Korans. How would you feel about that?

Suppose it was copies of the Jehovah's Witnesses' "Watchtower". How would you feel about that?

Suppose it was copies of a Hare Krishna cult's recruiting booklet. How would you feel about that?

Suppose it was a pamphlet explaining that while one (other) brand of Christianity is true, your particular brand of it is wrong and your children are going to burn in hell for heresy?

Once you let "our" side hand stuff out, you gotta let 'em ALL hand stuff out.

I'm not at all sure I feel good about that.

[fortheDeclaration]

Acting on behalf of two sets of parents from the district, the American Civil Liberties Union sued in February in federal court in St. Louis.

Thank God for the ACLU, protecting American children from the Bible.

And which side do you think they would be on if this was Porn?

[freepatriot32]

so you cant give away bibles in a MO school but california school kids have to pretend to be muslims for a semester according to another freerepublic thread that i cant find right now. Yeah thats consistent and non hypocritical

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[backtothestreets]

NOTES:

1. The First Congress of The United States of America funded the printing of bibles with taxpayer money. These were men with much familiarity of what was, and was not Constitutional.

2. Nearly 60 years after the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, the Taft Supreme Court extended the "incorporation doctrine" to include states (local government and schools) in the First Amendment restriction upon CONGRESS and the establishment of religion.

3. It is this 1925 Supreme Court ruling that is the foundation for all subsequent rulings against religion in public schools, state and local government.

4. The only way of setting aside the 1925 ruling is a Constitutional Amendment restoring the First Amendment as it was ratified.

[muawiyah]

Alas for the judge it's not really a violation of the Constitution ~ more like it's some4thing that old biddy just doesn't approve of.

Can we get going on a program to remove the federal judiciary? In today's world they are quite anachronistic ~ nothing they are doing can't be done better by state supervised courts.

[endthematrix]

The Board then voted to allow the Gideons to come into the school that fall and distribute Bibles. Shortly after this meeting, Superintendent Lewis submitted his letter of resignation, effective at the end of the school year,
indicating that he felt the Board was “headed down a path that is both illegal and costly” to the District.

Guess what? He was right.

[Raycpa]

Maybe they should hand out Penthouse and get the ACLU on their side first to set a precedent of free speech.

[goldstategop]

But its OK to giveaway copies of Das Kapital.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Exactly why schools shouldn't be handing out bibles. You wouldn't like it if they gave your kids a Koran. Some people who are of a different belief wouldn't like their kids to be given bibles.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Exactly why schools shouldn't be handing out bibles. You wouldn't like it if they gave your kids a Koran. Some people who are of a different belief wouldn't like their kids to be given bibles.

[Non-Sequitur]

The least they could have done was to ask for the willing recipients and hand the bibles to them only.

So continue to give 5th graders Bibles just don't do it in school grounds. Is their purpose to spread the word of God or force a court case?

[Skooz]

I remember the Gideons gave away New Testaments to my classmates and me when I was in the 4th and 5th grades.

Somehow, our Republic survived.