The principle of government neutrality in religion is so-o-o simple, even a high school principal should be able to comprehend it. (Although many of them aren't too bright, because they didn't get their jobs by being bright.)
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Judge orders La. school district to stop Bible giveaways
By JANET McCONNAUGHEY |
Associated Press Writer
April 22, 2008
April 22, 2008
NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge ordered a public school system to stop allowing in-school Bible giveaways, saying the practice violates the First Amendment separation of church and state.
"Distribution of Bibles is a religious activity without a secular purpose" and amounts to school board promotion of Christianity, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier ruled in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana against the Tangipahoa Parish School Board.
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