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You are absolutely clueless. If you had a child who had even come close to being sexually molested, I'll bet you would hardly remember all of these dates in history. You would not see past your broken child. Get off your out-dated high horse and hear for the millionth time. No one came down on these men for bibles. They were asked to get off school grounds and did not. It really is that simple!

If that is not simple enough, try driving up or down US 1 anywhere in the Florida Keys at rush hour at the beginning of a school day or dismissal of a school day (assuming you are not stuck at an open draw bridge. Do it on a daily basis. You would probably ask someone hindering the process to move as well. It really is that EXTRA simple!!!

"You are absolutely clueless."

We try and refrain from personal attacks on this forum, and as you pointed out, the subjects of this article may have been attacked, but they are not "personal attacks on this forum". That is a clue.

We also have a little understanding of the Constitution and we don't think it is an "out-dated high horse". The Constitution trumps traffic any day. Enjoy your stay at FreeRepublic.

The property on which a school sits is the property of the school board. The property outside of that school is the property of the public. The Gideons do not stand on school property to distribute their Testaments unless specifically invited by the school authorities. Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the organization and their techniques rather than repeat the MSM propaganda line. As for the traffic on US 1, I hardly think the Gideons were standing in the highway. Besides, road congestion is hardly a problem restricted to the Florida Keys.

Something that is lacking in this matter is common sense. How anyone can equate men giving out Bibles with child molesters stretches credulity. If our society has a problem with child molesters, it is because the penalty for such crimes is insufficiently harsh. It is also because the social and cultural leaders of our society abandoned the old standards of morality and decency as "Victorian" and "repressive" and promoted amorality and permissiveness in sexual matters. Neither of these problems are corrected by stopping Gideons from distributing Bibles.

Preventing people from giving out Bibles on public property is at best an instance of brainless "zero tolerance" policy at best or a deliberate attempt to suppress freedom of speech and religion at worst.