Kentucky Senate Wants To Pass 'Bible Curriculum'

[Charleston Chew]

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Thou shall not teach religion in public schools. That's what some in Kentucky are arguing after a bill to offer Bible studies in the state's public schools passes in the state senate.

WLWT reports this isn't the first time the Senate resurrected a bill about the Good Book. It failed in the House once before because some thought it was unnecessary.

"In Kentucky - schools already have the choice of offering courses that teach the Bible. What Senate Bill 56 would do, is standardize the coursework. Some educators say a standard for teaching the Bible has the potential to make more school systems inclined to offer the class."

The bill's sponsor -- Senator Joe Bowen -- talked to Louisville's WLKY.

"No doubt about it, the most important book ever written and obviously, it's had so much influence on our society and all of western civilization."
http://www.wlky.com/r/26818810/detail.html

USA Today notes what few sources do: That this bill also "allowed students to substitute their own texts."

WLKY talked with two Kentucky legislators who aren't buying into toying with testament teaching.
One told the station he didn't vote because he thought the bill threw academic credibility out the window.

And another -- a state House rep. -- who thinks the bill is meant to court Christian voters.
REP. MEEKS: "It's like waving meat in front of a dog, OK? You give them what they want."

The course would be an elective social studies course which would require students to know biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives. The New American questions the history of public education's rejection of religious and biblical references in holiday and prayer.

Noting some school districts make what they thought were politically correct decisions -- like removing American flags from their classroom.

"Yet, schools have comfortably accepted the role of instructing students in other areas that one should consider private or personal, such as sex education."



Bible Classes: Kentucky Senate Approves Law To Allow 'Academic' Teaching Of Text In Public Schools

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/bible-classes-kentucky_n_822040.html

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Because there aren't enough

churches in Kentucky or religious programs on television for people who want to learn about the Bible

[madrchsod]

2. they`ll be fight`n over which version of the bible...

[AsahinaKimi]

3. And people wonder why The USA no longer excells

In Science and Technology.

[louslobbs]

4. I was raised a Roman Catholic and I went to public schools

when the bible was taught, it was in a separate church building where I went to catechism to move along my indoctrination into the Catholic way of thinking and living through fear and judgment. Public school taught me reading, writing and arithmetic, and when I went to catechism, the sisters taught me their religious beliefs according to the bible. Separate and apart with no government involvement my parents sought out this school and enrolled me to learn its teachings.

They were in separate buildings because of the separation of church and state which some people simply dismiss as words. This is not a Christian Nation, it never was and never will be. This is a Nation of people who have the freedom to believe what they want without any government involvement. People who want to study a particular faith or belief system, can seek them out and study till their hearts are content. If my children were in a public school where they started teaching any religion, then I would remove my children from that institution. This is the first step to get religion into public schools where it does not belong and that means any religion. No one should be forced to listen to or adhere to the principals of someone Else's belief system. As for the seperation of church and state, without it I fear, this country woulc be far more messed up than it already is.

Lou

[Angry Dragon]

6. +1000

[bjobotts]

9. Well said Lou. Spot on. The senate just wants attention to show how righteous they are

[blackspade]

5. Yet more retarded crap form my state senate.

As if we didn't have actual issues and problems to solve in this state.
Red meat for idiots.

[bjobotts]

7. Government should have no say over religion teaching in schools either way

[bjobotts]

8. Next it will be "why not the Koran?". Stop provoking religious war.

[blackspade]

11. who is provoking a religious war?

[blackspade]

10. Government supported schools, means no favoring of religion.

Which means no teaching religion in schools.
Now if they want to teach world religions as a class giving equal weight to x-tans, muslims, hindus, norse, greko-roman, egyptian, Native Americans, etc maybe we could talk.
But that won't happen, so we should all keep it as a private matter taught at home.

[RowdyRacer]

12. Go ahead and "teach" it...

but, teach EVERY WORD of it, not just the Sunday school version.
Do that long enough, and there won't be a Christian in the state in 15 years.

[louslobbs]

13. LOL........OK

I'm for that 100%. The truth shall set you free.