http://www.news-daily.com/morelocal/cnhinsfaith_story_038121025.html?keyword=topstory
[excerpt]
Educators would walk fine line in Bible teaching
By Karen Middleton
THE NEWS-COURIER (ATHENS, Ala.)
ATHENS, Ala. —
If the Alabama Legislature passes a bill to allow Bible literacy to be
taught as a high school elective, teachers would walk a fine line between
separating the teaching of the Bible’s influence on society from teaching
their personal religious beliefs.
Rep. Ken Guin, D-Carbon Hill, and House Majority Leader Seth Hammet,
D-Andalusia, introduced House Bill 58 that would specify that each local
board of education would be granted the authority to offer the course in
ninth through 12th grades within its jurisdiction. The bill is on the House
calendar but has not come up for a vote.
Guin cites a survey of 41 top-ranked teachers and 1,002 students jointly
conducted by Gallup and the Bible Literacy Project — a non-partisan,
non-profit endeavor founded in 2001 to promote the academic study of the
Bible in public schools — as a need for this legislation.
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Karen Middleton writes for The News-Courier in Athens, Ala.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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