[Pastor Ezekiel]

When will Jesus finally smite and destroy forever the joo cabal that runs the openly anti-God communist front, the ACLU? When they aren't trying to force gay marriage on us, they are attacking Christianity in general. In Louisiana, the secular schools are being sued over handing out free Bibles. What kind of an upside down world do we live in, with these smut defenders trying to destroy Christianity?

School Faces Suit for Distributing Free Bibles

Amite, La. - The Tangipahoa Parish School Board is facing another federal lawsuit, this time from a parent claiming that the district permitted the distribution of Bibles to students on school property during class.

The suit, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New Orleans. In addition to the nine School Board members, the suit names the schools superintendent and a middle school principal as defendants.

It marks the fifth ACLU-sponsored case involving religion against the Tangipahoa school system in 13 years.

"They're habitual offenders when it comes to promoting religion in schools," said Joe Cook, executive director of Louisiana's branch of the ACLU. "In this case, they teamed up with someone else."

The lawsuit centers on an incident described by "Jane Roe," a fifth-grader at Loranger Middle School.

Last week, her teacher sent the class to the front office where two men were passing out Bibles to the students, according to the suit.

The men handed a Bible to each student and said, "God bless you," the suit claimed.

School officials had approved the distribution, which occurs every year in the fifth grade, according to the suit.

The girl's parents, who are Catholic, objected to the practice, claiming it violated their right to control the religious upbringing of their child and subjected her to religious indoctrination, Cook said.

Well now it all becomes clearer. A family of mary worshipers were offended by men handing out REAL CHRISTIAN Bibles and saying "God Bless You", an experience that was new to them, and so they decided to enter into a pact with satan's law firm. Jesus hates that.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel

Well now it all becomes clearer. A family of mary worshipers were offended by men handing out REAL CHRISTIAN Bibles and saying "God Bless You", an experience that was new to them, and so they decided to enter into a pact with satan's law firm. Jesus hates that.

I don't think that their Catholicism was the source of their objection. After alll, Catholics use the Bible as their holy book. I think it was the fact that a public school, which is a secular institution, violated the First Amendment when it marched students into the principal's office for the specific purpose of putting religious texts into their hands.

[Virginia Day Templeton]

First of all, Catholics hate the Bible — they don't even believe God wrote it. Second, have you even read the Bill of Rights? The First Amendment says that all citizens are entitled to the FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION, including the distribution of God's Holy Word to all who are willing to receive it. It's not like the teachers put a gun to the kid's head and said "convert or die!" They just gave the students the opportunity to be Saved, which is something every person deserves.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Originally Posted by Virginia D. Templeton

First of all, Catholics hate the Bible — they don't even believe God wrote it. Second, have you even read the Bill of Rights? The First Amendment says that all citizens are entitled to the FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION, including the distribution of God's Holy Word to all who are willing to receive it. It's not like the teachers put a gun to the kid's head and said "convert or die!" They just gave the students the opportunity to be Saved, which is something every person deserves.

Amen, Sister. One would assume that these Cathylick parents that are causing the problem here would prefer to have their child molested by a priest than have her posses her own copy of the Bible.

And there is something wrong with saying "God bless you,"? So now what are we supposed to say when someone sneezes? This political correctness has gone way too far.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Originally Posted by Virginia D. Templeton

First of all, Catholics hate the Bible — they don't even believe God wrote it. Second, have you even read the Bill of Rights? The First Amendment says that all citizens are entitled to the FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION, including the distribution of God's Holy Word to all who are willing to receive it. It's not like the teachers put a gun to the kid's head and said "convert or die!" They just gave the students the opportunity to be Saved, which is something every person deserves.

Yes, the Gideons have a right to distribute Bibles, but not on government property. Public schools are the property of local government. And that right does not extend to the indoctrination of other people's children without the parents' consent.
From the article: the "teacher sent the class to the front office where two men, assumed to be representatives from The Gideons International, were passing out Bibles to the students". The students were not given a choice as to whether or not they wanted to go get a Bible. They were told by a school official (who is an employee of local government) to go. For a government employee to instruct a child to receive religious material is unconstitutional.

[Brother Temperance]

Originally Posted by Dances with Joy

Yes, the Gideons have a right to distribute Bibles, but not on government property. Public schools are the property of local government. And that right does not extend to the indoctrination of other people's children without the parents' consent.

So? As long as the government (as represented by the school superintendent) gave consent for the Bibles to be distributed, I don't see how you could possibly object to what others do with their property. Are you some kind of a commie?

From the article: the "teacher sent the class to the front office where two men, assumed to be representatives from The Gideons International, were passing out Bibles to the students". The students were not given a choice as to whether or not they wanted to go get a Bible. They were told by a school official (who is an employee of local government) to go. For a government employee to instruct a child to receive religious material is unconstitutional.

Friend, no-one was making the children read the Bibles. Sure, they were instructed to take them, but there's nothing (except the certainty of eternal damnation) to stop them throwing them in the trash as soon as they get outside.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Originally Posted by Brother Temperance

So? As long as the government (as represented by the school superintendent) gave consent for the Bibles to be distributed, I don't see how you could possibly object to what others do with their property. Are you some kind of a commie?

Friend, no-one was making the children read the Bibles. Sure, they were instructed to take them, but there's nothing (except the certainty of eternal damnation) to stop them throwing them in the trash as soon as they get outside.

In that case, you should have no objection to children being sent to the principal's office and being given copies of the Qu'ran. Or the Bhagavad Gita. Or Dianetics. Or The Spiral Dance. Or the I Ching. Or Tarot decks.

[Brother Temperance]

Originally Posted by Dances with Joy

In that case, you should have no objection to children being sent to the principal's office and being given copies of the Qu'ran. Or the Bhagavad Gita. Or Dianetics. Or The Spiral Dance. Or the I Ching. Or Tarot decks.

Friend, let's not be silly. I can't object to any of those things, because I can't imagine any of them happening. This is a Christian country, and that's how Jesus and I like it.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Originally Posted by Brother Temperance

This is a Christian country, and that's how Jesus and I like it.