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School Bible Battle Ends, First Amendment Wins

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By Charles C. Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar

Unconstitutional Bible classes have been popping up in public schools all over America in recent years — and most of them go unchallenged.

But that may be about to change.

On March 5, a West Texas School district agreed to stop teaching a Bible elective that critics charge is devotional, not academic.

The agreement ends a lawsuit brought last May by…

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