Texas School District Sued Over Bible Classes

A school district in Texas is being sued over the teaching of Bible classes in public schools. I can't say that I'm surprised. It's only a matter of time before all school districts get sued. They claim that they're teaching about all religions. Yet, the only religious text that they're using is the Bible which means that they're teaching about CHRISTIANITY.

Where are the texts for other religions and beliefs like Ásatrú, Ayyavazhi, Bahá'í Faith, Bön, Buddhism, Discordianism, Etruscan religion, Hinduism, Lingayatism, Hermeticism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Mandaeanism, Manichaeism, Neopaganism, Orphism, Rastafari movement, Samaritanism, Shinto, Sikhism, Spiritism, Taoism, Wicca, and Zoroastrianism just to name a few? If they're teaching about all religions and beliefs, why aren't these being taught? Why aren't the students reading out of the texts of these religious faiths? Hmm, it couldn't be because they're LYING about what they're teaching!! Nah, never happen!! They wouldn't lie because they're good Christians!! Christians don't lie!! No, never!!

I think it's great that the school district is being sued. You clearly aren't teaching about other religious beliefs if you're only using the Bible. The classes need to go.

(AP) DALLAS Two advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a West Texas school district on behalf of eight parents who say a Bible course violates their religious liberty.

"Religion is very important in my family and we are very involved in our religious community. But the public schools are no place for religious indoctrination that promotes certain beliefs that not all the kids in the school share," Doug Hildebrand, an ordained Presbyterian deacon who is among the plaintiffs, said in a written statement released by the ACLU.

You're damn right!!

"There is no question that these Bible electives are constitutional," said Kelly Shackelford, Liberty Legal's chief counsel. "The United States Supreme Court has stated more than once that teaching about the Bible is not only constitutional, but essential to a quality education. This lawsuit is a loser."

Hmm, I don't recall the United States Supreme Court ever saying that the Bible is essential to a quality education. What the hell is this person smoking? I've also never heard them say that it is constitutional to teach the Bible in a public school. The only losers I see here are the people who are trying to push the Bible on children in public schools in order to indoctrinate them with one religious belief. That is who the losers are in this situation!!

See you in court!!

Some Georgia Public Schools To Offer Bible Classes

I smell a lawsuit, and a justifiable lawsuit at that!!

Some Georgia public schools are going to offer classes on the Bible. Although Georgia has a law that allows these classes, there's a problem. It's a violation of church and state separation. I don't care if they say that they're not going to promote or teach one particular religion. The point is, they're teaching RELIGION by teaching about the Bible. By the way, what religion are you promoting if you're teaching the entire Bible? It sure as hell isn't Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any other religion for that matter. By teaching the Bible, you're promoting CHRISTIANITY.

People will stop at nothing to get religion taught in schools. If you want your child to learn about religion, send them to a private or religious school. That's what they're for!! And people wonder why more parents homeschool their children. Who can blame them? Who wants their child indoctrinated?

Supporters say fully understanding history, literature and political science — from the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. to the war in Iraq —requires knowledge of the Bible.

Gee, I don't understand the war in Iraq. I don't understand history. I don't understand literature. I don't understand political science. I don't understand what the hell Martin Luther King Jr. was saying. I'm just stupid because I don't understand anything. That's because I don't know the Bible. Good God!! We're not brain-dead idiots!!

"I don't think you can understand Shakespeare, that you can understand a great deal of literary allusions or that you can understand a great deal of Western civilization without understanding the role of the Bible," said Pennock, a former Western civilization teacher.

Here we go again!! You can't understand anything unless you understand the Bible. Well, I understand the Bible!! And I don't think it should be shoved down the throats of anyone. I don't think it should be taught in public schools. And, I hope that parents and others sue to keep it out of schools. Like I already said, if you want your child to learn about religion then send them to a private or religious school. Otherwise, take them to church. But stop this nonsense with the damn Bible being taught in schools!! It's ridiculous!!

Pease, a Christian, said she'd support schools teaching comparative religion classes, including those that studied the holy books of other major faiths like Islam's Quran.

Oh yeah!! Like those right-wing, Bible-thumping, Christian, conservative, whack jobs would really allow the teaching of any religion but Christianity to take place in school. Like hell they would ever allow Islam to be taught in school. Like hell they would ever let the Quran be taught in school. It's a crock of shit to think that they would. Anyone who thinks that they would is clearly delusional!!