Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin touts 'Bring Your Bible to School Day' on Thursday

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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin wants students to celebrate a holiday on Oct. 3 – and no, he isn't talking about Mean Girls Day.

This Thursday, Bevin wants kids to bring the Holy Scripture to class and take part in "Bring Your Bible to School Day," an annual event that encourages students of all ages to take the religious text into the classroom.

"I would encourage you, please, don’t just bring your Bible to school, but read your Bible. Bring it, share it with others. If you have an extra Bible, bring it and share it with somebody who doesn’t have one, who maybe has never read this book," Bevin said Tuesday in a video posted on social media.

"Bring Your Bible to School Day" is sponsored by Focus on the Family, a national Christian organization that has come under fire in years past for support for "conversion therapy," a widely dismissed practice that seeks to "cure" LGBTQ people of their sexual orientation.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2019/10/03/matt-bevin-supports-bring-your-bible-to-school-day-2019/3850149002/

[Botany]

1. This breaks so many laws it is not funny .... one time for every bible that is brought to a ...

... public school. School is for teaching math, reading, science, social studies, and so on
you go to your church for that "bible stuff."

This all about Bevin trying to get out his base for this fall's election. BTW Bevin won in 2015
after a very dirty election.

[Girard442]

2. Can I bring The Necronomicon?

[exboyfil]

6. In the article the ACLU

says you can and you can share it openly whenever appropriate. I also think the students should get a chance to explore the nasty bits in the Bible (the uplifting stories of God commanded genocide for example).

[Ohiogal]

3. That's good advice, Gov. Bevin

In fact, why don’t you forget about school children and Tell your bosses in Washington they should be reading the Bible. They seem rather bereft of morals and compassion and could use some moral guidance.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. And I'm sure that the passages praising helping the poor,

Welcoming the stranger, and enjoining us to aid the poor will be ignored.

[lagomorph777]

5. Wait - I thought Thursdays were Bring Your Gun To School Day?

Some kind of mixup?

[lpbk2713]

7. "Sorry ... no Torahs ot Qurans allowed."

"Please stay home that day."

[world wide wally]

8. I wonder if it's Old Testaments only

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Focus on your OWN damn family & stay the hell away from mine!

Way to exclude students who come from all the other faiths and traditions, or none at all, you chauvinistic prick.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Bevin does his best to destroy education, teachers, Medicaid

[MineralMan]

11. Students can bring their Bibles to school every day if they like.

There's no need for a special day to do that. The idea that it is something that needs a special day is based on the erroneous belief on the part of some that students aren't allowed to have a Bible at school. That is simply not true.

[Botany]

13. This might have something to do with the Governor's "Bring your bible to school day."

Tuesday, November 5
2019 Kentucky gubernatorial election

[Golden Raisin]

12. Just about what I'd expect from the state

that gave us and continues to re-elect Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. Bring your fucking Bibles to Church or read them in your Home. Keep them out of public schools.

[Initech]

14. How are the Christian right different from the Taliban again?

[Thunderbeast]

15. I suggest taking this...You will have more fun

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