Kentucky to allow Bible Classes in Public Schools and you can smell the lawsuits coming. But hey if they’re going to allow Bible classes in public schools then they better be ready to allow other religious teachings as well – PB/TK
Kentucky Gives Blessing to Bible Classes in Public Schools
by Corky Siemaszko / June 28 2017
In the beginning, there was a proposed bill that would allow Bible courses to be taught in Kentucky’s public schools.
And it was controversial.
Now that Gov. Matt Bevin has signed the so-called “Bible Literacy Bill” into law, the ACLU and other watchdog groups say they are going to make sure the classes don’t cross the constitutional line from teaching to preaching.
“Right now the language of the bill is very vague and the Kentucky Department of Education has not yet put together a curriculum,” Amber Duke of the Kentucky ACLU said Wednesday.
“The concern, though, is that you could have a curriculum that is constitutional and could be delivered in a manner that is not constitutional.”
The Bible class as envisioned by HB 128 is a course solely “on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament.” The purpose is to “provide to students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture.”
It is also an elective, not a required course.
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