A federal judge in New Orleans found today that the Tangipahoa Parish School Board violated the First Amendment by allowing Gideons International to pass out pocket Bibles to Loranger fifth-graders during school hours last year, court records show. In an 11-page order, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier wrote the practice is unconstitutional under multiple legal standards in federal case law testing whether government and religion are too closely entangled.
The distribution of the Bibles was “ultimately coercive” on an elementary school child, “a religious activity without a secular purpose” and “amounted to promotion of Christianity by the School Board,” Barbier wrote.
Throughout history man has tried to stop God's Word from being spread, but in the long run these efforts are futile.
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