A legal team protecting the rights of a student to read the Bible during his class reading time claims officials in the Broward County school district in Florida lied about their ban on the Bible.
A second demand letter from the Liberty Institute on behalf of the student revealed that while the school apparently was claiming the Bible was disallowed because it wasn’t on a list of approved reading sources for an advanced readers’ program, it actually was.
“One of the reasons you cited on the phone for the ban on the Bible during Accelerated Reader Program time was that the Bible is not included on the Accelerated Reader Program list of approved books that have corresponding online tests,” said the letter from Hiram Sasser, director of litigation for the institute, to Marilyn McNamara of the Broward County schools....