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Kids across the nation are gear up to bring their Bibles to school Thursday -- but is it legal to bring a Bible to public school? Is there a scenario where information technology's not legal?

Lawyers on both sides of the contend are weighing in ahead of "Bring Your Bible to School Day," sponsored by Focus on the Family, which reports that more than 650,000 students participated in the event concluding year.

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"Well, of course, it is," says Jeremy Dys, special counsel for litigation and communications for Commencement Freedom Constitute, a legal organization dedicated to protecting religious liberty. "Students are not only allowed to bring their Bible to school. They're certainly allowed to read it during free fourth dimension, in between classes, and even reference the Bible inside their assignments and class discussions."

And while the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) typically clashes with the First Liberty Plant on First Subpoena issues, the two concord here.

"The constitutional boundaries are elementary," Elizabeth Cavel, associate counsel for FFRF, told Play a joke on News. "Students, of course, have the right to bring their Bible to school on this or whatever other day."

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Simply Cavel adds a warning: "Public school teachers and administrators may not promote or encourage students to participate in religious events on this or any other solar day."

Dys says that "well-nigh the only thing that students tin can't do is monopolize the classroom time with reading the Bible" -- only just because bringing a Bible is legal doesn't hateful school administrators are aware.

Giovanni Rubeo, for example, was 12 years former when a instructor humiliated him in forepart of the form for reading his Bible during free reading time past scolding him for non reading a book from an approved list. As information technology happened, the teacher got information technology wrong and the Bible was really on the listing in the commencement place.

Some other incident involved Mackenzie Fraiser of Nevada, who was told twice that she couldn't reference the Bible in classroom assignments. Two days after Get-go Liberty got involved, the school apologized and the sixth-grader was allowed to share her inspirational quote from the Bible -- John 3:sixteen.

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"Neither students nor teachers should be afraid of the Bible inside public schools," Dys said. "At the very least, information technology'south a book of literature and history, and it's the best-selling book of all-time."

Focus on the Family unit posted a memo put together by Alliance Defending Freedom on the "Commencement Amendment rights of students to promote and participate in Bring Your Bible to Schoolhouse 24-hour interval" for students to exist able to bring with them to know their rights.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees shared one of his favorite Bible verses as he encourages kids to bring their Bibles to school Oct. 3 as a way to live out their Christian faith.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees shared one of his favorite Bible verses as he encourages kids to bring their Bibles to school Oct. 3 as a way to alive out their Christian religion. (Focus on the Family)

"My business organization is that there is such misinformation about the freedom of faith and the separation of church and country that students voluntarily absent themselves from the process ... so when they're told they can't practise something like that, they recall it's illegal," Dys said.

While New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees didn't face any legal trouble, he received backlash just for recording a promotional video for the upshot.

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"I think it tells y'all what schoolhouse kids are upward against if a Super Bowl-winning quarterback gets excoriated for encouraging kids to bring their Bible to school," Dys said. "Like Drew Brees, these kids have nothing to fear. They should not exist ashamed of their faith or of bringing their Bible to schoolhouse merely considering an angry mob doesn't similar the book."