Okay, this is a hilarious response from the attorney who represents the group that wrote the outrageously bad bible curriculum I've been writing so much about lately.
Hiram Sasser, Liberty Legal: Everyone's come to the same conclusion, that this curriculum was perfectly fine. It meshes well with the educational environment of a school, and it's beneficial, and the Supreme Court has always said it's beneficial for the kids to learn about the Bible. So anyone who's against this has just got to be French.
Just got to be French? Did he seriously say that, like with a straight face? Wow.
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Mr. Sasser must be watching too much Bill O'Reilly.
Mon Dieu!
Do you think that maybe his reference to the French was intended to refer to France's long standing hostility to religion in the schools?
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Yes, I'm sure that was the point of the reference. But it's an absurd comparison in this case because the curriculum wouldn't just be found unconstitutional in France, it would be here too. And I fully expect that it will be challenged soon.
I'm starting to feel rather sorry for all the nonjudeo-christian kids that have to put up with this.
I think a good fraction of the "Judeo-Christian" kids are ill-served as well, starting with the Judeo- fraction and continuing with all the non-evangelicals/non-fundamentalists, including most Roman Catholics and traditional Protestants. The book pushes a very narrow doctrine; it should be pretty easy to demonstrate that it oversteps any "Bible as Literature" boundary.
Just got to be French? Did he seriously say that, like with a straight face?
...Oui.
I feel sorry for the Christians who have to put up with this.
The curriculum is really, really bad. Really, really, really, really bad.
Did you catch the part about how much of it is plagiarized? Including the entire section on "Thou shalt not steal?" You can't write parody like that.