On March 1o, the Kentucky Education Committee passed a bill that would allow the state’s teachers to teach Bible literacy classes in the state’s public schools. The bill would also require the Kentucky Board of Education to draft an elective social studies course on the religious book.

This would not be a world religions course, and would only focus on the bible as a historical text.

Senate Bill 278, would focus on biblical content and characters with the intention of providing students with the skills and historical knowledge that would serve as a framework for understanding contemporary society and culture.

Yes, you read that right, they want to use the bible to educate children about society and culture.

This is clearly a Christian-based course that is not focused on teaching about religion around the world but focusing on one religion and teaching it as historical truth. Though not everyone sees it that way.

“Senate Bill 278 would not teach the Bible — it would teach about the Bible,” said Democratic State Sen. Gerald A. Neal. “The Bible isn’t something we should run away from or to.”

The bill is actually written and sponsored by the state’s Democrats and was introduced by Democratic State Sen. Robin L. Webb.

“I remember what it looked like when I had it as literature and it was just like the dissection and discussion of any other book,” Webb said. “I’m optimistic, cautiously optimistic like I am with any bill here.”

Webb further tried to deny that the course is overtly religious and tried again to pass it off as historic.

“This bill would not have a religious connotation as much as a historical connotation,” she said.

Obviously, strong opposition to the bill exists, mainly from the ACLU of Kentucky.

“Because although there certainly are acceptable ways to teach about the Bible to public school students — such as teaching comparative religion classes or about the Bible’s relationship to literature, art or music — the fact remains that it is difficult, in practice, to do so in a constitutionally permissible manner,” said William E. Sharp, the legal director of the ACLU of Kentucky. “Moreover, the ACLU of Kentucky maintains that parents and religious leaders, not government employees, should teach religious beliefs to children.”

The bill still has to pass through the state’s government and would then head to the governor’s desk. Given the state’s politicians are strongly in favor of religious endorsement in their state, and the governor himself is a Tea-Party evangelist, if this bill makes it to the floor, I have little doubt children in Kentucky will have Christianity shoved down their throats in school.

Kentucky seems to be committed to becoming the laughing stock of the U.S. by not only funding a giant landlocked boat that replicated Noah’s Ark but now they want to just indoctrinate children right in their schools.