Florida Schools Ban Bibles to Appease Atheists, Satanists
Officials at a Florida school district have banned the distribution of Bibles in area high schools after an anti-religious group and a Satanist organization announced plans to pass out their own materials.
Orange County Public Schools, a large school system with more than 180,000 students, had for the past three years allowed the Christian group World Changers of Florida, along with the Florida Family Policy Council, to distribute Bibles on Jan. 16, National Freedom of Religion Day.
The Bibles were placed on a table in a common area for students to pick up if they chose to, CNS News reported.
Last year, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist group, lost a battle to have all outside materials banned from the schools. The group then sued for the right to distribute its own literature in the schools.
One of the groups' proposed pamphlets was titled "An X-Rated Book: Sex and Obscenity in the Bible." The cover showed a cartoon Bible sexually assaulting a woman.
The school system relented in the court battle and gave the group permission to pass out the materials.
This year, the Satanic Temple also announced plans to distribute literature in the high schools, including information about what the group asserts is "the legal right to practice Satanism in school."
Now the school system has stated that it will not permit any outside materials to be distributed, including atheist and Satanist literature — and Bibles.
School officials have proposed a new policy stipulating that "materials of a denominational, sectarian, religious, political, and partisan nature shall not be permitted to be distributed."
Florida Family Policy Council President John Stemberger believes school officials caved in to pressure after parents at board meetings protested Satanist materials being made available to students.
"This is precisely what the Freedom From Religion people want," he said. "They want to get rid of religion, and that's their strategy. And everybody's played into the strategy. It's unfortunate."
Officials at a Florida school district have banned the distribution of Bibles in area high schools after an anti-religious group and a Satanist organization announced plans to pass out their own materials.
Orange County Public Schools, a large school system with more than 180,000 students, had for the past three years allowed the Christian group World Changers of Florida, along with the Florida Family Policy Council, to distribute Bibles on Jan. 16, National Freedom of Religion Day.
The Bibles were placed on a table in a common area for students to pick up if they chose to, CNS News reported.
Last year, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist group, lost a battle to have all outside materials banned from the schools. The group then sued for the right to distribute its own literature in the schools.
One of the groups' proposed pamphlets was titled "An X-Rated Book: Sex and Obscenity in the Bible." The cover showed a cartoon Bible sexually assaulting a woman.
The school system relented in the court battle and gave the group permission to pass out the materials.
This year, the Satanic Temple also announced plans to distribute literature in the high schools, including information about what the group asserts is "the legal right to practice Satanism in school."
Now the school system has stated that it will not permit any outside materials to be distributed, including atheist and Satanist literature — and Bibles.
School officials have proposed a new policy stipulating that "materials of a denominational, sectarian, religious, political, and partisan nature shall not be permitted to be distributed."
Florida Family Policy Council President John Stemberger believes school officials caved in to pressure after parents at board meetings protested Satanist materials being made available to students.
"This is precisely what the Freedom From Religion people want," he said. "They want to get rid of religion, and that's their strategy. And everybody's played into the strategy. It's unfortunate."
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Public schools are toast. Homeschoolers arise
! Who is prosecuting civil rights cases
alleging discrimination based on religion these days ?
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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