# Duncan, OK school teacher handing out bibles **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 8, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116 "2015-04-08T13:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/61 "2015-04-10T20:52:16Z")
The teacher was sloppily trolling for her church. Very sloppily. Sloppy troll is sloppy. Skillful trolls are never suspected. She is the opposite. She didn’t give this a lot of thought, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/62 "2015-04-10T21:46:29Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > Babies happen the same way in all religions. I doubt we will find many cites to the contrary. I _did_ read a book where that exact thing happened. Boring book. Wordy and poorly thought-out. And talk about a _preachy_ book. Everyone’s a sinner. Except for this Hispanic guy named Jesus. > [@marshmallow](#): > > It’s hard to go through life without being handed a Bible or two. Good learning experience. I don’t remember where I first heard the comedian who originated this bit do it, but I was inspired to recreate it when I was Christmas shopping a few years ago with the (now) ex-wife, and we were approached by someone handing out pocket New Testaments. As they handed it to me, I whipped out a pen, signed it, and said, “thank you, thank you. It’s always nice to meet a fan,” handed it back to them, as I continued to the car. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/63 "2015-04-10T21:56:26Z")
Teacher should fired, same as if she was asking students if they wanted Chick Tracts, Korans, Torahs, or Satanic Verses or applications to the Obama Fan Club. Kids should get their religious indoctrination at home. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/64 "2015-04-10T21:58:31Z")
Good a place as any for the great Emo Phillips joke: > [@](#): > > Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?” > > He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?” > > He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!” > > Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/65 "2015-04-10T22:18:30Z")
The storybook should be banned to anyone under the age of 18. Only the available and misleading texts should be made available so the parents can still evily indoctrinate their offspring for confirmations, fist communion and bar/batmitzvahs. Then once 18, they should read the bible in its entirety, give reports on it, and watch the number of believers fall to almost no one, the now mature students reading the drivel and offended by page after page. Hey, I can dream, can’t I?? ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/66 "2015-04-10T22:26:56Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > That’s a super-slippery slope. First of all, Porno can be illegal, so sayth SCOTUS. > > Next, the Bible is important historical literature, I took a upper level Univ class about quotes from the Bible. The KJV was a textbook for that class. third grade??? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/67 "2015-04-10T23:02:45Z")
Yet if she’d handed out condoms, everyone would probably be all “how dare you be upset about that”. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/68 "2015-04-10T23:19:09Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Yet if she’d handed out condoms, everyone would probably be all “how dare you be upset about that”. I think just about anyone would agree that handing out condoms in **elementary** school may not be the best idea. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/69 "2015-04-10T23:21:57Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Yet if she’d handed out condoms, everyone would probably be all “how dare you be upset about that”. Bizarro World scenarios, where you condemn people for their hypocrisy in alternate universes, are always idiotic, but this one takes the cake. Are you fucking kidding me? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/70 "2015-04-10T23:26:36Z")
The scary thing is, he isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/71 "2015-04-11T00:01:48Z")
I went to Catholic school in 3rd grade and the nuns were always handing out condoms, along with rosary beads and saint cards. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/72 "2015-04-11T01:59:56Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > I remember when I was in grade school and they would let the [Gideons](http://www.gideons.org/) come in and hand out bibles. Me too, in the 80’s. Public school in Montana. Now that I think about it, that was really bizarre. Most of the kids took one (including me), and most of the kids treated it like a big joke. > [@John\_Mace](#): > > I went to Catholic school in 3rd grade and the nuns were always handing out condoms, along with rosary beads and saint cards. Wait…what? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/73 "2015-04-11T02:14:12Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I went to Catholic school in 3rd grade and the nuns were always handing out condoms, along with rosary beads and saint cards. Either those were actually scapulars or you must have attended the most progressive Catholic school ever to have not existed. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/74 "2015-04-11T17:09:13Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > I doubt they would be the first…or the last. To go home, get their dad drunk, and sleep with him? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/75 "2015-04-11T18:12:08Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > To go home, get their dad drunk, and sleep with him? 😕 Good username/post combo ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/76 "2015-04-12T18:03:38Z")
My catholic high school discussed birth control, STDs, and condom use in our health class (didn’t distribute condoms, though) - but that was in 12th grade, not third. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/77 "2015-04-13T16:29:23Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > Me too, in the 80’s. Public school in Montana. Now that I think about it, that was really bizarre. Most of the kids took one (including me), and most of the kids treated it like a big joke. Hey neighbor! Public school in South Dakota in the 70s. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/78 "2015-04-13T17:19:17Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Hope Satanists find out. Legal challenges take time, this crap stops the minute a Satanist shows and starts handing out material. I wish they’d done that in my high school in Florida during Bible giveaway week. Nobody listened when I asked exactly who the Bible-distributors were targeting. 95% of the students were dragged to church, Sunday School, and sometimes “Youth Group” every week. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/79 "2015-04-13T17:22:04Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > I think just about anyone would agree that handing out condoms in **elementary** school may not be the best idea. Third grade is a bit young. Sixth grade…is not, for some students. My mum taught 7th grade and up, and was fairly horrified when she read the notes kids are passing. Ah, the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116/80 "2015-04-15T16:08:11Z")
As for legality or what constitutes literature - that’s for the school board to decide. Every district I have worked at has had a list of banned books. You’re ok as long as the book is not on that list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duncan-ok-school-teacher-handing-out-bibles/717116.md?page=5)