Reply #83: Clinton Administration

[cmkramer]

I worked for a state education department during the Clinton Administration and I remember when the rules came down from the feds. Basically, you're allowed to have Bible/religious clubs in school just as long as there's no attempt at prosletyzing and Bible clubs must be treated like any other school club. If the kids in the Chess Club or the Future Homemakers of America are allowed to go on field trips related to their club, so are the Bible Club kids. However, if they aren't, the Bible Club kids aren't either. By the way, the same rules apply to any other religious clubs.

I remember telling a nun at my Catholic grade school that I supported the idea of no prayers in public schools although they are perfectly appropriate in religious schools. Anyway, we decided to have a class debate about it and it turned out that about half the class were skeptical about a lot of Christian dogma including the Virgin Birth. Even the nun in the class pointed out that the word "virgin" could easily just mean "young girl" and not necessarily "someone who has not experienced sex yet".