Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Bible Distribution to Fifth-Graders

By Jim Salter / The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that prohibited the distribution of Bibles to grade school students in a southern Missouri school district. At issue was a long-held practice at South Iron Elementary School in Annapolis, 120 miles southwest of St. Louis, in which Gideons International representatives came to fifth-grade classrooms and gave away Bibles. A U.S. district judge issued a temporary injunction, and a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis agreed the classroom distribution should be prohibited. Full story...

Posted by Editor at August 24, 2007 12:15 PM