Dear Mr. Stone,
 
This letter is in regard to Duncan Public Schools’ recent capitulation to the atheist organization, American Humanist Association. May I just say, what a sad surrender it is.
 

You sir, are either either weak – a common ailment in these days when personal integrity is at a premium – or you subscribe to the tedious separation-of-church-and-state fallacy. You can’t possibly believe that America’s founders, majority Christian, steeped in Judeo-Christian traditions as they were, would have opposed voluntary distributions of bibles in a public school?
 
I know you can’t truly believe that, because you are an attorney who represents educators. It follows that you yourself have been “educated” – presumably in American History. So you certainly would be familiar with the Aitken Bible?

Robert Aitken’s Bible was the first known English-language Bible to be printed in America, and also the only Bible to receive Congressional approval. Aitken’s Bible, sometimes referred to as “The Bible of the Revolution,” is one of the rarest books in the world, with few copies still in existence today.

 
 
Did you catch that “receive Congressional approval” part? (You mean Congress actually approved of a Bible? Gasp!)
 
Here’s the text of their actual endorsement:

Philadelphia, September 10th, 1782.
Whereupon,
RESOLVED,
 
THAT the United States in Congress assembled highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken, as subservient to the interest of religion, as well as an instance of the progress of arts in this country, and being satisfied from the above report of his care and accuracy in the execution of the work, they recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States, and hereby authorize him to publish this Recommendation in the manner he shall think proper.

 
Furthermore, America’s early schools’ primary function was actually to teach everyone to read and understand the Holy Bible. Our first colleges were all established to provide instruction in… theology.
 
Benjamin Rush, signatory to the Declaration, a physician as well as an educator, reformer and humanitarian (BTW – there are few if any in Washington today who could hold a candle to the man) regularly expressed his belief that the Bible should be central to a proper education ~

“(T)he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.”

And even;

“Let every family in the United States be furnished at the public expense… with a copy of an American edition of the Bible.”

Yet you have decreed ~

“All teachers and administrators in the district are being advised that they are not permitted to distribute Bibles or other religious materials to students in class or during class time.”

 
Well sir, Benjamin Rush admonishes you across the centuries:

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects… It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

 
Mr. Stone, I am sad for your ignorance. But I feel even worse for the children in the Duncan Public School District from whom you are obstinately withholding the word of God out of a misguided – or deliberate – interpretation of the founders’ intentions.
 
Regards,
Designs on the Truth