A serious threat to public safety.
Posted on 05/19/2009 8:34:26 AM PDT by Zakeet
Some parents in Frisco, Texas, are fuming because their public school district allowed Christian evangelists to provide Bibles to students on school grounds, which administrators say was done to stop even more proselytizing outside the schools.
Frisco Independent Schools allowed Gideons International to display Bibles on tabletops in all 13 of the district's middle and high schools last week. Officials say it didn't violate the law, but some parents say school is not the place to be offering the Good Book.
"I was never notified by the schools that they were going to allow this. I was a little shocked," said Debbie Lutz, a mother with three children who attend schools in Frisco, about 20 miles north of Dallas.
Michael Baier, who has a son at Frisco's Lakeland High School, said that religious groups should not be allowed to offer their teachings on campus.
"If they're God-fearing Christians ... they should be giving those items wherever they worship. School is a place to learn, not a place to worship," Baier told FOXNews.com.
Lutz said she wants the freedom to raise her children as she sees fit — and without the interference of religious groups. She told FOXNews.com she worried that allowing one group to offer Bibles in the school would open the floodgates to any groups who want to reach students on school grounds.
"It does open the door for other people to have the right to hand out other stuff. And I think that's not a good door to open."
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That raised some alarms for parents, some of whom even contacted the police about their children's safety. And it stymied the school system, which says it has "no control over what takes place on the public sidewalks."
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A serious threat to public safety.
But condoms for 1st graders is just dandy...
LOL. Perhaps if these parents had taught their children to simply say “No, thank you.” and then move on, this would not be a problem.
In America. Unbelievable.
moral absolutes??
I’m sure the Koran would have been very welcome.
The Kama Sutra even moreso, since it is so congruent with the government school “sex-education” theme.
Only Christ is forbidden.
WHICH parents are ‘fuming”? I am guessing the usual liberal loudmouths.
I bet an equal number of parents (or more) are grateful. Can we hear from them?
I will bet these liberal “Texans” are all Northeast transplants.
I would be a bit pissed to be honest. I only allow my children to read the Catholic Bible and if they were given something non Catholic I would be steaming mad!!!!! I am sure that others agree with me.
Good: Your daughter comes home with a bible
Worse: It’s 5:00 AM
Even Worse: It’s a Gideons Bible
Yes, in our Orwellian world, handing out Bible makes people hysterically upset, but handing out condoms is required. The insanity of it all is overwhelming.
It is almost as if we want our society to be destroyed. I feel sure Satan is laughing.
I do not like the idea of people pushing their agenda at public school either, be it a religious agenda, a political agenda or the gay nazi agenda.
So, Lutz "wants the freedom to raise her children as she sees fit", and it's the one time offer of a free Bible that upsets her? This airhead better take a real close look at school curricula, textbooks, what all her kids' teachers are saying in class, guest speakers, etc., etc.
Talk about being unable to see the forest for the trees, or, more accurately, being unable to see the forest for one tree.
I don't recall a single complaint about this.
Maybe the shouldn’t be living in Texas. Massachussetts may suit them better.
I don’t care if my kids were given Catholic Bibles, the book of Mormon, or even the Koran.
It provides a great opportunity to talk about what makes our religion different from those.
(I’m an evangelical Christian.)
Not really. The only thing I think is that a notice should have gone home prior to the Bibles being made available, so that parents could addres it as they wish.
I'm Catholic and have a St. Joseph's Catholic Bible and two King's James Bibles right behind me. Out out curiosity, what is your major worry with about non-Catholic versions, that would so worry you about your child having one?
I'm ready for us to secede!
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