Ethics

Both Sides Declare Victory in Gideon Case

By Ed Brayton

The South Iron School District in Annapolis, Missouri is back in legal news again. They've had a case going on about a policy allowing the Gideons to distribute Bibles in elementary school classrooms for 3 years now. The Gideons had been doing so for 30 years until a group of parents filed suit in 2006 to stop it.

Liberty Counsel immediately got involved and offered to represent the school district, advising them to change the policy to an open forum, allowing all outside groups to set up a table in the hallway and hand out literature instead of doing it in the classrooms. The school did that and Liberty Counsel then asked for the case to be mooted, which the district court refused to do.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).