Did you know it’s ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’?

[cbayer]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/16/did-you-know-its-bring-your-bible-to-school-day/

By Valerie Strauss October 16 at 9:56 AM


President Obama, top hand, is sworn in as wife Michelle Obama holds up the same bible used by former president Abraham Lincoln, during Obama’s inauguration in 2009. (Dennis Brack/Bloomberg News)

Today, you may not know, is national “Bring Your Bible to School Day,” so declared by a Christian ministry called Focus on The Family. Here’s what a Web site promoting the event says:

Did you know that students have recently been ordered to stop reading their Bibles during free time at school? Here at Focus on the Family, we believe the Bible is a powerful message of hope and love for humanity—something to be celebrated, not banned. We also believe in the cherished religious freedoms our Founding Fathers fought to protect.

Do you share our desire to reverse this trend and equip the next generation to boldly exercise their religious freedoms—and be unashamed of their biblical beliefs? Then you’ll love Focus on the Family’s new event for students: Bring Your Bible to School Day on October 16! Students all across the country can stand up and celebrate their religious freedoms together.

The day appears to be in reaction to a few cases in schools — including one in Florida in the spring — in which teachers reportedly told students they could not read their Bibles during free time.

In fact, federal regulations permit students to read their Bible, pray or study religious materials during non-instructional time, including lunch and recess.

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[Behind the Aegis]

1. I wonder what the reaction would be if someone brought this one to school?

[cbayer]

2. Not good, I would guess.

There is all sorts of wrong about this whole thing.

[edhopper]

3. Why do I feel there is more to those stories

than simply reading the Bible.

Maybe because their is always something else besides religious intolerance.

[cbayer]

4. Honestly I think Focus on the Family is about a lot of things

that have nothing to do with religion.

They are horrible.

[femmocrat]

5. They never actually name the schools that prohibit Bible-reading, though.

It's always some vague statement.

[cbayer]

6. I think I have read of a single case, and in that case

the teacher was reprimanded and the school said that it was ok for kids to read their bibles.

As usual, they make a major case out of a minor incident just for the attention.

[brooklynite]

7. Good for them...

Since there's never been a ban on reading religious materials (or for that matter praying), I hope they enjoy themselves. Mind you, as mythology goes, it's pretty dry material.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. Lying for jesus. Figures.

I'd like to see the public school that forbids students to read the bible in their free time.