Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore Fights to Keep Gideon Bibles in Missouri Schools

Ten Commandments Judge Fights to Keep Gideon Bibles in Missouri Schools

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A few days ago I wrote a piece about the Honorable Roy Moore and here he is again, fighting to keep the Gideon Bibles in the Missouri Schools. Thank God for men like Judge Moore.

Judge Roy Moore and Foundation for Moral Law File Brief Defending Distribution of Gideon Bibles in Missouri School District
by Staff July 10, 2008

WASHINGTON, (christiansunite.com) -- Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and attorneys with the Foundation for Moral Law argued in an amicus curiae brief filed today that Gideons International's 30-year tradition of distributing Bibles to fifth-grade students in the South Iron R-1 School District in Missouri did not violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In this case, Roark v. South Iron R-1 School District, after the American Civil Liberties Union sued, a Missouri federal district court ordered the schools to stop allowing the Gideons to distribute Bibles, even though any other outside group may distribute material to the students. The South Iron School District is now appealing the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.

Judge Roy Moore commented on this important case:
"For a school district to allow the Gideons to distribute Bibles to fifth-graders is no more an establishment of religion than for a school to require the parents of such children to pay for school lunches with money marked 'In God We Trust.' The South Iron school policy allows others to distribute materials, so why should the Gideons be singled out for mistreatment

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