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#23915 - 01/28/05 01:55 AM The Bible in class: Is it ever legal?
Amelia Here Forever, by Request :) Registered: 07/30/01 Posts: 17206 Loc: Out standing in a field	The Bible in class: Is it ever legal? By Amanda Paulson \| Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor January 27, 2005 edition It provided some of the foundations of America's laws and is referenced in literature from Dante to Dostoevsky. Bring it into the public schools, though, and the Bible can be problematic. When parents in Frankenmuth, Mich., proposed a high school class about the Bible a year ago, the superintendent's first question was a natural one: Is it legal? The group providing the curriculum said yes: The course was elective, treated the Bible as literature and history, and complied with a 1963 US Supreme Court ruling that said schools could teach about religion in a secular way. The ACLU and People for the American Way said no: The curriculum in question promoted a specific Christian interpretation and looked at the Bible as a source of history, both things that crossed over a line into unacceptable territory. The whole story _________________________ "The wealth of a man is measured by what he can do without." ---Henry David Thoreau " Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him..."1 John 2:15-16 Fairview Or
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