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Texas Students Claim Pressure to Take Bibles in School

Coming close on the heels of a Louisiana case in which judges ruled that it really is in violation of the separation clause to offer public school students Bibles, a group of teens in Plano, Texas, say that they were unfairly pressured and taunted into picking up a Bible in (you guessed it) their public school. District officials allowed the Gideons International to fill and unstaffed table with Bibles in the school hallway, and several Jewish students said they were teased about not taking the Bibles. One said that someone asked him, 'If the Bible touched you, like, will you burn or something?'

Texas has been a hotbed of controversy when it comes to church/state issues, and there have been a number of debates recently about allowing religious groups into public schools.
Tuesday May 6, 2008 | comments (9)

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