Some of the parents of kids attending the high school in Frisco, TX (a small town north of Dallas), were expressing outrage in a Fox News report today. One mother was quoted as saying, "I was never notified by the schools that they were going to allow this. I was a little shocked." Some parents "even contacted the police about their children's safety."
What nefarious deeds could be causing such a ruckus? Subversive, anti-government materials? Free drugs? Pedophiles? No, it's the Gideons, handing out Bibles in the school, or on the sidewalk outside. How dare they!
School officials insist they were in compliance with the law by allowing the Gideons to come into the school to set up a display, with the provision that no direct conversations take place to urge students to take a Bible or listen to any Bible-friendly exhortations. And, the school's PTA president "didn't feel like [the Bible] was being pushed upon" students at the school. But no matter, for some parents concerned for their children's welfare, bringing Bibles anywhere near the school may as well have been setting up a marijuana kiosk in the cafeteria.
Meanwhile, schools in other cities have been allowing Muslim speakers to come and make presentations on Islamic beliefs, for the sake of "awareness", including a school last year in Houston, where students were taught "the Five Pillars of Islam and how to pray five times a day and wear Islamic religious garb." A similar "presentation" on Christianity would have doubtless started a riot among parents in Frisco.
This kind of selective secularization of our society is not new, and not likely to be diminished by the passing years, as long as the "correct" thing in our culture is to keep religion (specifically the Christian version) as far away from public life as possible. It makes you wonder if some people are going to try to take Jesus to court when He returns. Actually, they will be in court, and He's the Judge.
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