ClydeR
02-15-2012, 11:38 AM
Scottsboro, Alabama, is known for two things. First, it's know for the Scottsboro Boys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys), whose story was recently made into a musical on Broadway. Second, it's know for the nation's only unclaimed baggage (http://unclaimedbaggage.com/) supercenter, where you can buy stuff -- perhaps your own stuff if you've ever lost a bag -- that the airlines lost and never returned to their passengers.
It's about to become know for Bible Man.
SCOTTSBORO, Alabama --A parent’s complaint about religious assemblies during the school day brought more than 100 people supporting the assemblies to a called meeting of the Jackson County school board Monday night (Jan. 30, 2012).
Board members retired with their attorney into closed executive session to consider the five-page complaint sent last month by the Freedom from Religion Foundation on behalf of the parents. After an hour’s deliberations, board members returned to the room to announce, to applause, that they would not be banning the Bible Man from schools, despite the complaint about his monthly meetings with county elementary children.
While the board deliberated, the standing-room-only crowd prayed, sang and shared stories of the “Bible Man,” as Horace Turner Jr. is called. The Bible Man began his ministry at least 35 years ago in schools in the northeast Alabama county. The ministry is now conducted by his son. Bible Man leads assemblies with elementary children to tell stories from the Bible, said superintendent Kenneth Harding on Wednesday. It’s a schedule similar to that of the county’s 4-H leaders, who come to schools once a month.
More... (http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2012/02/bible_man_okd_by_jackson_count.html)
Any parent who objects to the Bible Man should consider homeschooling, says Alabama Sen. Shadrack McGill (R) of the state’s Eighth District, whose children have been educated both through homeschooling and in the Jackson County schools.
“We were established to be a godly nation, a Christian nation,” McGill said Wednesday. “We need God in government. We need God in the public school. The more we trend away from God, the more we suffer – morally and spiritually.”
It's about to become know for Bible Man.
SCOTTSBORO, Alabama --A parent’s complaint about religious assemblies during the school day brought more than 100 people supporting the assemblies to a called meeting of the Jackson County school board Monday night (Jan. 30, 2012).
Board members retired with their attorney into closed executive session to consider the five-page complaint sent last month by the Freedom from Religion Foundation on behalf of the parents. After an hour’s deliberations, board members returned to the room to announce, to applause, that they would not be banning the Bible Man from schools, despite the complaint about his monthly meetings with county elementary children.
While the board deliberated, the standing-room-only crowd prayed, sang and shared stories of the “Bible Man,” as Horace Turner Jr. is called. The Bible Man began his ministry at least 35 years ago in schools in the northeast Alabama county. The ministry is now conducted by his son. Bible Man leads assemblies with elementary children to tell stories from the Bible, said superintendent Kenneth Harding on Wednesday. It’s a schedule similar to that of the county’s 4-H leaders, who come to schools once a month.
More... (http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2012/02/bible_man_okd_by_jackson_count.html)
Any parent who objects to the Bible Man should consider homeschooling, says Alabama Sen. Shadrack McGill (R) of the state’s Eighth District, whose children have been educated both through homeschooling and in the Jackson County schools.
“We were established to be a godly nation, a Christian nation,” McGill said Wednesday. “We need God in government. We need God in the public school. The more we trend away from God, the more we suffer – morally and spiritually.”