Correction and Update

[ladynox25]

I don't suppose you remember the sign I saw a couple of weeks ago?

I talked about it here.

I happened to drive by it again today. This time I was able to read the last few words. Here's what it really says[1]:

"Y IS IT THAT CHILDREN CANNOT READ A BIBLE IN SCHOOL BUT THEY CAN IN PRISON"
I don't know if that's better or worse than what I thought it said.

[1] The bolded words are the ones I couldn't quite read before.

In the same entry, I mentioned that I tried to find out if Ana-Lab would match donations for Katrina relief made to the Red Cross. Today I recieved a note which stated that if Ana-Lab employees wanted to make a donation to the Red Cross or Salvation army to help with the recovery from Katrina, Ana-Lab would match donations. It's a bit late for them to match mine, I think, but it's good to know that any further donations will be matched. And it may be my vanity but I think I had a lot to do with getting that to happen, since I was the one who mentioned it to Debbie. Go me, I guess. *smile*

Comments

[desdenova.livejournal.com]

I am shocked and outraged that Texas is sending children to prison instead of school. Or is that not the point of the sign?

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

I think thier point was that prisoners can read the Bible but children in school can't. Which is untrue, anyway.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say...who's stopping them?

But of course, what the originators of the sign mean is that reading the Bible isn't mandated in school. As far as I know, it's not mandated in prison, either...

[mjschaef.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm pretty sure what they mean is that you can't go to a school library and check out or pick up the bible, but you could if you were in prison. But, as long as no one is forcing a child to read the bible, I can't see why having it in a school library would be bad... especially if it were with holy books of (or about) other religions. That wouldn't seem illegal to me. In any case, the kids who WANT to read the bible can surely find one at home or other places. Prisoners obviously don't have that option, so having bibles for them makes sense...

[scionihilum.livejournal.com]

Just another example of a fundamentalist group using faulty logic to try to make a "head-nodding" point to persons of less than adequate education or intellect.

School is a place to learn secular, not religious, subjects. Religious teaching is what your local synagogue, church or mosque is for.

Prison is not specifically a center for learning by any stretch of the imagination. If they want to read anything in prison, I suppose they should be allowed to in most circumstances, just as you or I should be allowed to read whatever we want at the local coffee shop.