"religious liberty protection policy"
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Bryan said he is very pleased with the final document.
“I think this is going to be great because our citizens will see we’re protecting the rights of all segments of our community,” he said. “For people of faith, it’s going to be a wonderful opportunity because we finally see our schools moving to where we’re not excluding religion from the schools, but now it’s being embraced on a neutral level.
“I think our schools have been
promoting secularism as the religion of choice of our nation, that no religion is preferable, and I’ve always felt like there’s got to be something else better. This is a really neat opportunity to see that our schools are going to be sharing about religion and, of course, parents, students and everyone will be able to find the correctness of that in the proper setting."
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I'll bet he's pleased, what baptist pastor wouldn't be?“the proper role of religion in the public school curriculum is academic and not devotional.”
This is a public school, they should not be teaching religion at all and Puh-lease, do you really believe that they are talking about non-christian religions?“Haynes explained the difference between teaching about religion and teaching religion in the public schools,” Bryan said. “He really laid out the principle that
as long as it is academic, there is nothing wrong, and everything right, about teaching religion in schools."
Here's more on Haynes from:http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/news/article.aspx?id=15190&SearchString=religion#link0:#####
First Amendment Center Scholar, Charles Haynes, comments on the struggle to teach about religion and its role in our history and culture without proselytizing. Below is his response to the
Bible Literacy Project’s recent report.
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According to a study out this week, most students in public schools don’t know much about the Bible – and many teachers are hesitant to teach it.
True, most students polled could identify Moses correctly (72%) and knew about Adam and Eve (90%). But when probed for a more substantive knowledge of the Bible, such as David’s actions in the Books of Samuel or what happened at the wedding of Cana as described in the New Testament, a large majority either didn’t know or answered incorrectly.
These findings – from a survey commissioned by the
Bible Literacy Project – shouldn’t surprise us. After all, from the “Bible wars” of the 19th century to the lawsuits of the 21st, Americans have a long and bitter history of fighting over the role of the Bible in public education. In our litigious culture, the path of least resistance is just to leave it out.
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They used a study done by the Bible Literacy Project, want to know more about the Project?
Chuck Stetson is the Chairman of the Board
Chuck Stetson is also the Vice Chairman of the National Bible Association.#####
http://www.biblecurriculum.org/Site/News/bibc_news8.htmBible Curriculum News
Remarks to the Press by Charles P. Stetson
Chuck Stetson, Vice Chairman, National Bible Association, on the release of the publication of
The Bible & Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide
"We believe that the implications of this second model are as serious as those of the first. Without the Bible, as well as other sacred texts, we believe that it is difficult to teach about morality and about ethics. We cannot even give our students the vocabulary to discuss morality and ethics. The result of such a vacuum should be no surprise. It is a total lack of standards and a form of anarchy and violence, the opposite of tolerance, respect and democracy. And we, as a country, have let this happen. But we have recently had several wake-up calls in our public schools, not the least of which was the recent shootings at Columbine High in Colorado. The images of that sad day have been engrained in all of us."
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Read mr. stetson's remarks again.
Now tell me how this involves "religious liberty protection".Bullshit.