High school students in Florida will soon be given free copies of a Bible-bashing booklet promoted by an atheist organization — a publication whose front cover depicts a lecherous, cartoon Bible sexually assaulting a screaming woman.
The pamphlet entitled “An X-Rated Book: Sex and Obscenity in the Bible” will be distributed in 11 public high schools in Orange County, Florida. An atheist organization, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), pressured reluctant school officials who eventually agreed to allow the booklet to be handed out to students.
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And when will this little purple pamphlet be offered to Florida teens for free in their schools? On National Religious Freedom Day this coming January.
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According to a report on CNSNews.com, a lawyer for the atheist group that won the right to hand out the controversial booklet called the Bible more “obscene” than their “X-Rated” publication:
FFRF Legal Counsel Andrew Seidel contended to CNSNews.com that the pamphlet with the cover depicting a Bible engaging in sexual assault is “pretty tame” compared to the Bible itself.
“I think if you look at the content of that brochure and what is actually in the Bible, and some of the things that are in the Bible in terms of sex and compare that to the cover [of the pamphlet], the cover is pretty tame compared to anything that is in the Bible,” Seidel said.
“I think the bottom line is, you can’t consider any of our materials obscene when compared to the Bible,” he said.
A news release on the Foundation’s website notes that a Florida District Court dismissed FFRF’s free speech case against the Orange County School District as moot, since the district agreed to let FFRF distribute all of the literature it had previously prohibited.
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In 2013, the Freedom From Religions Foundation sued the school district after it agreed to allow an evangelical Christian group to distribute Bibles.