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Kentucky Committee OK's Bibles in Schools


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Kentucky's senate education committee unanimously approved a bill Thursday that would allow teaching the Bible in public schools.

The proposal would allow schools the option to offer Bible classes as a social studies credit, according to the Associated Press.

Democratic senatot David Boswell, the chief sponsor of the bill, said the lessons would be based on literatary, artistic, cultural, and social aspects of the Bible, and therefore the classes would be constitutionally sound.

Sen. Julian Carroll told the members of the committee that passing the measure was the moral thing to do.

"We took the Bible out of our schools, but we put nothing back," Carroll said. "When we took the Bible out of the schools, we also unfortunately took out that portion of the Bible which relates to life skills, which relates to value systems. And so our students these days do not have the full opportunity, in my judgment, to be taught those life skills and value judgments that keep them out of our penitentiaries ..."

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  • Name: Truthseeker
    Date posted: 2/23/2010 1:52:17 PM
    Hometown: Bowling Green, KY

    Comment:

    The point is this, religion should be a privat matter, it has no business in our school system or government. If we want to teach children our beliefs, then do so, but do it in the privacy of our own homes and churches. There is nothing good that will come from discriminating a religious belief. Keep it out of school.

  • Name: James
    Date posted: 2/23/2010 4:28:35 AM
    Hometown: Washington

    Comment:

    they are not forcing the kids to take the class, they are simply offering it. they should offer other religious education classes as well, but you guys are reading way too far into it. their agenda is simply to give kids a choice.

  • Name: Roger Burr
    Date posted: 2/22/2010 10:33:40 PM
    Hometown: Marble Hill

    Comment:

    Wake-up, Megan! The point I'm making is that anti-gay bigotry in Kentucky has all ready been codified into law and NOW they're sticking their Bibles in peoples faces! Did you note they made no mention of OTHER Scriptual texts?? They have an 'agenda' to win the kids over to THEIR way of thinking and marginalize, further, the LGBT community as well as ALL others who don't adhere to the 'christian' belief.

  • Name: Rick
    Date posted: 2/22/2010 4:02:23 PM
    Hometown: Charlotte

    Comment:

    Putting Bibles in the schools is not necessarily a bad idea. It will force some kids to see how absurd and ridiculous the book really is.

  • Name: Joe
    Date posted: 2/22/2010 2:39:09 PM
    Hometown: Fort Worth

    Comment:

    They accuse US of having an "agenda"???

  • Name: Scott
    Date posted: 2/22/2010 2:28:38 PM
    Hometown: Portland

    Comment:

    Government mandated religion is a violation of the constitutional rights, that is unless you want a young generation full of ignorant, supremacist people.

  • Name: Bob
    Date posted: 2/22/2010 1:02:53 PM
    Hometown: Brooklyn

    Comment:

    The Bible can be instrumental in teaching that all men, for all time...even those God directs and calls "chosen"...are brutal murderers, set on taking land for their own and willing to slaughter all men, women, children, babies and animals who might happen to be living there. I'VE READ THE BIBLE (have you?) and I've yet to read another book as violent, horrific, misogynist and homophobic as it...

  • Name: Megan
    Date posted: 2/22/2010 10:01:47 AM
    Hometown: Chicago

    Comment:

    You are absolutely pitiful, Roger. "None the poorer if Kentucky left the Union". You are no better than the people you denounce. Sounds a lot like "We'd be a lot better of if gay people just went away". You are as full of hate and ignorance as those you are making fun of. Good riddance to YOU.

  • Name: Jake
    Date posted: 2/22/2010 9:44:42 AM
    Hometown: Ashland

    Comment:

    Which Bible? King James, Revised, Revised Standard, Schofield[?], New Revised Standard, Amplified, Catholic, Protestant??? The list goes on and on you know. Then whose interpretation? The list of interpretations coming from denominations and sects is endless. Why not just opt for some good old fashioned separation of church and state like the constitution says. Churches are perfectly capable of teaching the Bible. Let them do their job and let the state get on with its job of educating people of ALL faiths. Sure glad I don't live in Kentucky!

  • Name: Roger Burr
    Date posted: 2/22/2010 9:36:32 AM
    Hometown: Marble Hill

    Comment:

    To make sure I understand; Kentucky has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, coupled with a budget deficit that will FORCE reductions in social programs and public services; and all the legislature can do is vote to put Bibles in schools? How about the KORAN and the BOOK OF MORMON? Are they included, also? Any room for WICANS??? I live next door to Kentucky and I can assure you; the collective IQ of that state is less than my shoe size! They're eaxctly the calibre of people to whom Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck appeal. We'd be none the poorer if Kentucky left the Union.

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