STATE OKs ‘BIBLE LITERACY’ STANDARDS

The Kentucky Board of Education has unanimously approved “Bible literacy” standards for public schools after being challenged by the ACLU to keep Church and State separate.

The Courier Journal reports that the standards approved Wednesday cover disciplinary literacy, historical thinking and analyzing influences. The idea is to enable students taking elective courses to study the Bible as literature, not as devotional material.

Kentucky’s American Civil Liberties Union challenged the state to develop guidelines, saying it found numerous examples of constitutional violations. The ACLU said it obtained course material from some school districts and had found some classes were being taught as devotional study, rather than literature.