http://www.religionnews.com/2014/04/15/hobby-lobbys-steve-green-another-project-public-school-bible-curriculum/
(RNS) The Mustang, Okla., school board voted Monday (April 14) to adopt a Bible course developed by Steve Green, clearing the way for the Hobby Lobby president, whose suit against the Affordable Care Act is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, to enter another charged arena at the borderline of church and state.
The board, whose district is practically in Hobby Lobby’s Oklahoma City backyard, agreed to beta-test the first year of the Museum of the Bible Curriculum, an ambitious four-year public school elective on the narrative, history and impact of the Good Book.
For at least the first semester of the 2014-15 year, Mustang alone will employ the program, said Jerry Pattengale, head of the Green Scholars Initiative, which is overseeing its development. In September 2016, he hopes to place it in at least 100 high schools; by the following year, “thousands.”
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In the same speech, Green expressed hope that such courses would become mandatory, whereas now they are usually elective.
Green’s move into public school curricula grew out of his second-best-known project (after the lawsuit): a 430,000-square-foot museum of the Bible due to open in 2017 several blocks from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that will feature objects from his family’s 44,000-piece collection of biblical artifacts.
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http://aattp.org/hobby-lobby-owner-postpones-launch-of-mandatory-public-school-bible-curriculum-amid-strong-backlash/
Hobby Lobby Owner Postpones Launch Of Mandatory Public School Bible Curriculum Amid Strong Backlash
Feeling emboldened by a Supreme Court victory that allows them to legally deny women health care options because corporations are people with feelings, rights, and religions, Hobby Lobby has a fresh and new idea: a public school elective class on the Bible that the owners hope will one day become mandatory.
Christofascist Steve Green, President of Hobby Lobby, recently let slip at the Templeton Award Ceremony that the company has big plans for America’s children:
We’re working on 4 year public school bible curriculum. The first year will be a summary of all three of those section. It’s history, it’s impact and it’s story. Then the next 3 years is going in depth in each of those — a year for the history, a year for the impact and a year for the story — in some order… The nation is in danger because of its ignorance of what God has taught. . . . If we don’t know it, our future is going to be very scary … We were looking – uh- we — we were talking – – discussed a college curriculum but it’s no — we really want to get — be into the – um – high school level because we want to reach as many as possible. Someday, I would argue, it should be mandated. Here’s a book that’s impacted our world, unlike any other, and you’re not gonna teach it? There’s — there’s something wrong with that.
Unfortunately for Hobby Lobby the August introduction of the curriculum, which was accepted by the Mustang School District in Oklahoma before it was even written, has hit a bit of a snag and has been postponed. “We have operated on an aggressive timeline to deliver the curriculum for the upcoming school year,” wrote Jerry Pattengale, editor for the four-year syllabus, but “unforeseen delays” have led to the curriculum’s postponement until January. “We will continue to work with Mustang and other school districts that have shown interest,” he added.
So…what’s the problem? Mustang made 220 pages of the first book, The Book: The Bible’s History, Narrative and Impact public. That’s all.
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