Atheists Plan To Hand Out X-Rated Bibles In Florida Schools And
Conservative ‘Christians’ Only Have Themselves To Blame
Author: Stephen D Foster Jr October 24, 2014 5:56 pm

Florida schools are being put in yet another impossible position after
allowing conservative “Christians� to hand out religious materials to
students last year.

Because Christians were allowed to have access to students at Orange
County Public Schools, the floodgates have officially been opened as
other religious groups line up to pass out their own materials. In
August, a judge ruled that the school must welcome the Satanic Temple,
which has created an activity book for children giving them instructions
on ways to be inclusive of others.

Now, atheists want their opportunity to distribute materials to
students. And conservatives are going to flip out when they discover
what children are going to be exposed to thanks to their own obsession
with forcing religion upon schools.

In protest of the school allowing religious groups to participate in
National Religious Freedom Day, the Freedom From Religion Foundation
intends to join the party themselves armed with their own pamplets and
books for students to read.

One book they plan to bring is “Jesus Is Dead,� by Robert Price, which
the school has banned in the past, claiming that it isn’t age
appropriate. You know, because letting Christians distribute a book that
includes 1,318 violent passages and instances of rape, adultery, and
polygamy is just peachy.

Well, if school officials didn’t like that book, they certainly aren’t
going to like this one.

The FFRF also plans to hand out copies of a pamphlet titled “An X-Rated
Book: Sex and Obscenity in the Bible,� which includes an image of a
Bible sexually assaulting a woman who is trying to escape.

According to Andrew Seidel, an attorney for FFRF, the pamphlet is far
less inappropriate for high school students than anything that’s in the
Bible.

I think if you look at the content of that brochure and what is
actually in the Bible, and some of the things that are in the Bible in
terms of sex and compare that to the cover [of the pamphlet], the cover
is pretty tame compared to anything that is in the Bible.

The school, however, is already suggesting that they will try to block
the FFRF from handing out their materials, which would violate the
rights of atheists while demonstrating a bias that favors Christians.

(And here is the crux of the matter, from the article):

"Perhaps school officials are confused about what religious freedom
means. After all, they’re certainly confused about what separation of
church and state means. If the school is unwilling to ban a book as
violent and sexist as the Bible from being handed out to their students,
they should allow atheists and satanists to hand out whatever religious
materials they want. The materials may offend school officials, parents,
and some students, but many are offended by the Bible as well. The fact
is, if anyone seriously objects to these materials being handed out,
they only have themselves to blame. Because the school allowed
Christians to hand out religious materials to students in a public
school where separation of church and state is supposed to be observed,
they opened the doors for other groups to distribute their own materials.

"That means atheists and satanists have the right to be represented in
schools and it doesn’t matter how many temper tantrums are thrown by
conservative “Christians� in protest. If they get to try to force their
beliefs down the throats of students, then every religious group has the
right to do the same. And if conservative “Christians� don’t like it,
they should support separation of church and state and obey it. That’s
the only solution to satisfy everyone."


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