Judge to Tangi Schools: Gideon Bibles Out of School

April 22, 2008

Author: JANET McCONNAUGHEY

Source: AP

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Tangipahoa Parish public schools must stop in-school Bible giveaways to students, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

"Distribution of Bibles is a religious activity without a secular purpose" and amounts to school board promotion of Christianity, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier ruled. That violates the First Amendment's separation of church and state, he wrote.