Juniper Russo's 13-year-old daughter spent fewer than two weeks in her "Bible as literature" class at East Hamilton Middle School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, before her mom removed her from the course.
Advertised as a nonsectarian approach to the Christian Bible, the "Bible in the Schools" program partners with nearly 30 public middle and high schools in Hamilton County, Tennessee, offering for-credit elective classes about the religious text during normal school hours.
The local Christian organization pays school districts to teach the Biblical history classes in public schools. Last year, the nonprofit donated almost $1.8 million to Hamilton County Schools, according to The Chattanoogan.
Bible in the Schools didn't respond to Insider's request for comment.
Though explicitly focused on the Christian Bible, the program bills itself as an unbiased, "viewpoint neutral" study of the book as historical literature — a caveat that allows the program to be legally implemented in taxpayer-funded public schools. The Establishment Clause of the US Constitution prohibits the government from displaying religious symbols or conducting religious practices in government-controlled places, including...
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