Time and time again we have seen Christian groups demanding access to public property and public distribution mechanisms while claiming that anyone can use them, only to throw a fit when non-Christian groups do the same things. Here’s another example from North Carolina, in the appropriately named Buncombe County. When a parent got upset by the school office distributing Gideon Bibles, the school told her they would do the same thing for material distributed by any group. So she brought some pagan books to the school and they suddenly changed their mind.

Ginger Strivelli delivered on her promise to bring Pagan spell books to North Windy Ridge after the intermediate school made Bibles available in December. She said school officials said they would allow for the availability of her materials, just as they did the Bibles from a local group of Gideons International. When Strivelli brought the Pagan books to the school Wednesday morning, she said she was told “a new policy is being crafted.” “I’m not surprised a bit. That’s fully what I expected,” Strivelli said. “Basically, they were calling my bluff thinking I wouldn’t bring in the books. “They’re changing the policy, which is wonderful. They shouldn’t (allow) it, but they shouldn’t have done it to start with. That makes it unfair after they have given out Christian propaganda.”

Here’s what the school says:

The school system released the following statement Wednesday: “Buncombe County school officials are currently reviewing relevant policies and practices with school board attorneys; during this review period, no school in the system will be accepting donation of materials that could be viewed as advocating a particular religion or belief.”

Translation: We’re trying to find a way that we can keep handing out Bible without having to make it an open forum and hand out everything. Sorry, you can’t. And the irony is that the court cases that determined that were filed by Christian groups seeking access to school facilities.