According to state law in North Carolina, the practice of donating Bibles to elementary school children must cease.
A North Carolina school district is putting an end to the donations of Bibles to elementary school kids.Okay, this is just splitting hairs. If the law allows them to be provided to high school students, why does it matter what grade they are in? An elementary age student might not even be able to read it anyway. What is the harm, seriously?
The Cumberland County school system says state law limits the practice strictly to high schools and has issued instructions banning it at 54 elementary schools in the metro Fayetteville area.
The move comes after a parent complained about the stack of Bibles left in her son's classroom earlier this month. The same parent filed a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Fayetteville Observer said that while a 1998 court decision allows outside groups to make Bibles available to high school students, the ACLU contends it doesn't apply to elementary kids who might see the practice as promoting Christianity over other religions.
The Bibles came from the Gideons, the group best known for supplying Bibles to hotel rooms.
I wonder if parents of an elementary school student in NC could sue the state now and claim there is age discrimination by only allowing Bibles for teenagers. They seemed to be the ones now discriminated against. The ACLU is once again picking and choosing their ridiculous battles.
Eventually they will ban the Bible as "hate speech" and settle the issue once and for all.