FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 6, 2025
BOISE, IDAHO – Idaho Family Policy Center, a pro-family Christian ministry, applauds the introduction of our School-Sponsored Bible Act in the Idaho House Education Committee this morning.
The legislation, which is sponsored by Rep. Jordan Redman (R-Coeur d’Alene), would provide for daily public school classroom reading of selections of the Bible, without instruction or comment from teachers.
It would also provide reasonable accommodations to teachers and students with religious or conscience objections.
The legislation was researched and drafted by Idaho Family Policy Center.
A statement from Blaine Conzatti, President of Idaho Family Policy Center:
For nearly 100 years, Idaho schoolchildren heard selections of the Bible read by the teachers, without instruction or comment, at the start of each and every school day. That remained common practice – not only in Idaho, but in nearly every other state across the country – until activist federal courts strayed from the original intent of the founding fathers by invalidating the practice in the early 1960s.
But now, our children and communities are starved for biblical truth and literacy—and put simply, it’s critical that we bring the Bible back to schools. After all, school Bible reading serves an important educational purpose. The Bible is the most important book in the world: it molds public morality, it impacts history and political philosophy, and it has shaped literature and the English language in uncountable ways. For these reasons, our children deserve the opportunity to develop familiarity with the Bible during their public education.
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