Welcome to... Obamanation!!! Soon, they´ll be passing out "blue shirts" to the students as they sing, "Barack Hussein Obama... uhm, uhm, uhm..."!

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech"

Crystal clear to me.

As long as the school was run by the government, I agree that teachers there should not be pushing religion. Why not just privatize the "public" school systems?

I agree with #2. And I am equally aghast at schools that allow prayer rugs and foot baths and whatever, so that muslims can pray.
There can be no religious accommodation for the gutter religion of Islam. And don´t tell me about peaceful muslims. They are nowhere to be found.

Oops - one more thing. It is possible to use bible verses as literature and philosophy, and it is also possible to compare the bible to other religious tracts, such as the koran. But the examination of those has to be in the context of literature, philosophy, morality.
(Matthew 18 - toiling in the vineyard - is a good example.)

So he gets canned and Slick Willy Clinton is father of the year. Reality is standing firmly on it´s head.

If anyone cares to do a bit of research, you would find that our founding fathers were "all about" the God of the Bible and would be rolling over in their graves today if they would see this secular immoral culture run roughshod over the freedoms Americans have to personally quote Bible verses in schools! If the humanists can quote their "evolution" religion in programmed class setting... at the least, we should be allowed to quote Bible verses!

When they remove prayer from the halls of congress before sessions, then... I may give ear to you hypocritical Bible haters voicing your demonic tripe about people quoting Bible passages and handing out Bible in public schools!!!

I guess it would be okay then for teachers to share a koran verse with a student, and to give school children a copy of the koran?

I thoight we had freedom of religion, not from religion.

however, had he directed a 14 year old school girl on where she could obtain an abortion without her parents knowing, he would have been fine......../s

Shoulda given the kid a condom instead. Then he´d still have a job.

To the trolls asking stupid questions
the answer is yes it would be fine to share a verse from the koran and give out one.... but having said that there He wouldn´t have been fired for giving out a verse of the koran and given a koran to the child. The 1st amendment covers all religions and for the trolls sake, there is no separation of church and state anywhere in the constitution what so ever just a made up law that is repeated over and over because of Thomas Jefferson´s PERSONAL writings... Why don´t we use all the founding fathers writings if we are going to cherry pick what was written by someone as a THOUGHT (Jefferson would have been roundly censored for trying to put that into the constitution and probably was).
What the founders wanted trolls is for there to be no REQUIRED state religion being forced upon us, and guess what we do now and its call secular humanism and it is being propogated daily but hey since its your religion you don´t even think about complaining.
Just saying

I am failing to see how a substitute teacher giving a student a Bible--one of the Great Books, by the way--at the student´s request, on his lunch hour, is the "establishment of religion." Where does it say that the teacher wasn´t neutral in his discussion with the student? And the Bible is more than just "religious literature. " It is one of the Great Books of the world that has had enormous influence on art, literature, music, among many other "non-religious" pursuits.

Read this link for more of the story:

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/phillipsburg/index.ssf/2013/01/phillipsburg_teacher_suspended.html

This all happened at noon, during lunch break, not in the classroom on the government´s time.

The "living constitution" will be the death of our nation.

In past years the Gideons could distribute Bibles to every student in a school, even in class. Then they were forced to stand on the sidewalks before/after school. I don´t think the man should be fired since there is no evidence that his behavior had any impact on his teaching. This is a knee-jerk reaction and unfortunately it is the default position of schools today.

However, I am uncomfortable with anyone in school distributing religious literature without the knowledge of parents. I would not want a Jehovah´s Witness or a Scientology member to give out their propaganda. The man could have told the child that he would be happy to have the discussion after school, with his parents. The bigoted anti-theists still would not be appeased but at least this would have allowed the man to continue working.
Ramona (the Pest)

The militant secularists´ demands through education, media/hollyweird/TV and among statist politicos are intensley targeted in their efforts to propagandize everyone, and especially America´s children. The lefty/lib athiest statists are joined-at-the-hip in their communal obsession against God´s Word.

It is time that the silent majority quit being silent and to call these secular humanist/socialist/marxist for what they are!

Bill Clinton taught us in his Presidency to accuse your enemies of what you are guilty of - when the racist liberals start the racist labels, we should immediately point out that they are the racist! When the liberals accuse others of intolerance, immediately point out their intolerance! When the liberals begin their accusations of hate, immediately point out their hateful invectives!!! It is time that we start taking the gloves off as good ole Chuck Heston said, "... from my cold, dead hands!"

Philadelphia must be ashamed of the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution.
Remind me never to visit the dump.