Bibles for PA Lawmakers
The Washington Post/On Faith section tells us about one taxpayer-funded program raising questions about church-state separation. Though the paper reports that in this case:
As unconstitutional, tax-funded, faith-based initiatives go, this one is relatively neutral and inexpensive.
This decades-old tradition allows the 228 Pennsylvania state legislators to choose from a wide-variety of holy books ranging in price from $30-$90. The Assembly’s best-seller: the New American Catholic Bible. One Christian rep ordered the Quran which he always wanted to read and a Jewish rep was inadvertantly given a Quran, later replaced by a Torah.
admin | In the News, New Testament, Old Testament | March 6th, 2009 |


