Gideons chased from Maryland schools

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | July 3, 2008

The Gideons, an international Bible distribution organization, can’t give away their wares – at least not in public elementary schools in Somerset County, Maryland.

The school board banned the Gideons from distributing Bibles for free in schools after a woman describing herself as a Christian complained about the activity to the American Civil Liberties Union and the district.

Stephanie Kayhan contacted the ACLU saying she is against Bibles being passed out in schools, because it blurs the “separation between church and state,” according to WBOC TV. She then wrote a letter to the school board arguing it is unconstitutional to allow the Gideons to continue. The school board subsequently suspended passing out Bibles on the school grounds.

“The Supreme Court has said this is unconstitutional,” she told the TV station. “It’s not allowed. So how high do you have to go? I mean it’s the Supreme Court. You can’t argue with the Supreme Court.”

Perhaps if she had bothered to read the constitution she might have known that seperation of church and state is not in it, poor fool

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