Wednesday, May 02, 2007

State Funded Bible Classes

I am okay with this because the class is an elective. If students were forced to take the class, I of course would have more issues.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

As long as it's an elective I dont have a problem with it being taught either. I think the more relevant issue is whether it's ok for the state to set aside funding for a specifically Christian course like this - a 'seperation of church and state' issue. I know I'd be upset if the federal government did this, but I'm not actually sure if our laws/constitution/etc say anything about individual states violaing the 'seperation of church nd state' clause.

Anonymous said...

The only problem I see is someone (and there will eventually be someone) who complains (and then sues) that there aren't classes offered that teach other religions, or atheism, or wiccanism (you could call it Harry Potter 101).

Anonymous said...

Right. Honestly I'm fine with them seting aside funds for COmparitive Religion coures, but once you single out a specific religion above all others you're just inviting those criticisms.