Trump Praises Proposals To Offer Bible Study In School

President Trump has praised proposals in the Missouri legislature to offer bible study classes in public schools.

In a tweet Monday, the president called moves by several states to introduce bible literacy courses “Great!” Missouri is one of six states with measures filed this year to incorporate bible study classes into public high schools’ curriculums.

The legislation in all the states is being coordinated by an organization called Project Blitz, which is made up of conservative Christian political groups. It has a 100-page plus playbook detailing language to be included in the legislative measures.

In Missouri, Republican Senator Ed Emery of Lamar and GOP House member Curtis Trent of Springfield have identical concurrent resolutions to encourages public high schools to offer an elective course on the bible and require all world literature courses to incorporate the bible. The measures are opposed by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union that contend they’re an infringement on the separation of church and state.