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Home Front: Culture Wars
Florida school district bans Bibles on Religious Freedom Day
2010-07-03
Maitland-based Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit Thursday to overturn a ban on Bible distribution on public school campuses in Collier County. According to the Liberty Counsel, the Collier County School Board allowed World Changers to distribute free Bibles to students during off-school hours on Religious Freedom Day, but now the school officials claim that Bibles do not provide any educational benefit to the students and the distribution should stop.

The Collier County School District policy specifically allows the distribution of literature by nonprofit organizations, but only with the approval of the superintendent and the Community Request Committee, whose members are appointed by the superintendent. Approval was denied to World Changers, despite the fact that its distribution included a disclaimer of any school endorsement or sponsorship and that receiving a Bible was purely voluntary.

"How sad that on the eve of Independence Day, when we celebrate the religious and political freedom our forefathers won for us at the cost of much blood and great sacrifice, we are compelled to sue to protect the right simply to make free Bibles available to students in public schools," said Mathew D. Staver, Liberty Counsel founder.
Posted by:Fred

#6  sorry I was thinking he was a dumbshit but I didn't want too hurt any feelings.
Posted by: chris   2010-07-03 12:08  

#5  What Barbara said!!!
Posted by: WolfDog   2010-07-03 11:48  

#4  "Mr. Bill do you think if they would have been handing out Qurans they would have stopped them?"

Short version, chris.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-07-03 11:11  

#3  Mr. Bill do you think if they would have been handing out Qurans they would have stopped them?
Posted by: chris   2010-07-03 10:32  

#2  When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Brought to you this Independence Day by the Ministry of Truth the Collier County School Board.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-07-03 09:14  

#1  Silliness and overblown. It makes it seem like you can't get a bible from any where but the school.
Posted by: Mr. Bill   2010-07-03 03:32  

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