A Florida school district has banned distribution of the Bible on Religious Freedom Day.
Earlier this month, World Changers of Florida was denied the right to distribute the Bible in the Collier County School District during non-instructional time. Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, is handling the case. "The school district said that the Bible cannot be distributed on Religious Freedom Day," he explains. "It had been distributed on Religious Freedom Day for the past several years, but this time they changed their decision and said it would be unconstitutional to distribute the Bible in a public school to willing recipients who want to receive the Bible." Staver notes that other items are distributed at the schools for secular events. In a Liberty Counsel press release, he stated that "limiting access to the forum based on religious viewpoint violates the First Amendment." "This particular school says that everything goes but the Bible is banned," he adds. "The Bible is essentially treated like contraband, where it was once the central part of our educational system." Liberty Counsel has written to the school district outlining the Constitution and court decisions that demonstrate the error in their decision.
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