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Court Says Gideon Bible Distribution To 5th Graders Violated Establishment Clause

By Howard Friedman

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In Roe v. Tangipahoa Parish School Board, (ED LA, April 22, 2008), a Louisiana federal district court held that the distribution of Gideon Bibles to 5th grade students at a Louisiana public school violated the Establishment Clause. The court said:

Despite the principal's statement that the children did not have to take a Bible, by allowing the Gideons to set up immediately outside the principal?s office, the School Board "created the impression in young, impressionable minds that 'the school endorsed a particular belief: Christianity.'" ... Therefore, this Court determines that the distribution of Bibles was ultimately coercive...; that distribution of Bibles is a religious activity without a secular purpose... and that distribution by the Gideons amounted to promotion of Christianity by the School Board....
The Advocate yesterday reported on the court's decision. (See prior related posting.)

Full post as published by Religion Clause on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).

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