Are condoms more acceptable than Bibles in public schools?

I read a news article today about the recent uproar in Alabama, where school personnel actually made Bibles available to students in a public school. Imagine that! The forbidden book itself, right out there where poor innocent students might pick it up and actually consider reading some of it.  Good God, what is this world coming to?

Check this out:  I took the news article, and did a "find-and-replace", replacing Bibles and Bible, with condoms and condoms.  Amazing how it reads after that.

The funny thing is, I believe that if my "find-replace" version of the article ran on MSNBC.com, the lefty readers there would be howling about what prudes those "right-wing fundamentalist" parents are for complaining.

Anyway, here's the "edited" article, with the key words replaced:



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Education

Claims That Condoms Were Distributed to Alabama Elementary Students Are Inaccurate, School Superintendent Says

By Joshua Rhett Miller

Published March 24, 2011

| FoxNews.com

An Alabama superintendent is denying allegations that a fifth-grade teacher and a librarian distributed Condoms during class at a public school, saying the claims are either "inaccurate or false."

Limestone County School District Superintendent Barry Carroll said he received a letter Tuesday from the American Civil Liberties Union in Alabama regarding a parent of two students at Blue Springs Elementary who said the Condoms were doled out within the past three months on multiple occasions.

"Based on what I hear from the teachers, the accusations are inaccurate, if not false," Carroll told FoxNews.com. "We live in a university town*, so children from time to time come in and ask if there's a Condom they can have."

Carroll said the school district allows materials, including Condoms, to be placed on a designated table where students can pick up things as they choose.

"There's no attempt here to go above the law," Carroll said. "We, as employees of the state, have a responsibility to uphold state law. We're not going to intentionally step out of bounds with that."

Carroll said he asked Brown, teacher Amanda Moss and the school's librarian, Diane Gilliam, who allegedly distributed Condoms to first- and second-grade students, to provide their account of events in writing. The findings of an internal investigation will be submitted to the school district's attorney, he said.

"We don't wind [students] up or pass out Condoms," Carroll continued. "But if there was an error -- and I don't think there was -- we will address it."

Thomas Moore, the parent of two students at the school, notified ACLU officials of the alleged practices, which violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

"In one instance, a fifth-grade teacher [Moss] went from classroom to classroom and placed a stack of Condoms on a desk in each room and instructed students to 'come get it' if they wanted one," the ACLU's letter read. "On another occasion, first-grade and second-grade students took a special trip to the library, where the librarian [Gilliam] handed out Condoms to students."

The letter continued, "Unsurprisingly, with the rest of their classmates looking on, Mr. Moore's children felt uncomfortable refusing the Condoms and thus, like others in the class, accepted them at the behest of their teachers."

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*Note that I replaced Bible Belt from the original article with a university town, simply because "Condom Belt", which I thought was a funny pairing, wouldn't have made much sense. A university town seems to me to be the opposite of the Bible Belt, because liberal parents from such a place would be all over sex education as a "must" in the public schools as early as possible, all the while taking joy in mocking the "religious right".

Here's the link to the original article:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/24/alabama-superintendent-denies-claims-bibles-distributed-class/?test=latestnews

I'm not surprised, by the way, at the current Bible-phobia non-Christians (and even some so-called Christians) exhibit whenever the Good Book is somehow brought out in the public. It IS powerful. It DOES change lives. It IS the Truth. And it WILL be the stumbling block for so, so many people in the amazing days ahead. No wonder there is such passion to destroy God's Word and relegate it to the fiction shelves.

But, regardless of their efforts, the Truth remains the Truth.