WIGGINS, MS - Student members of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) will distribute Bibles, based on Liberty Counsel's advice, to their Stone County Public High School classmates tomorrow before Good Friday.
FCA members previously sought permission, as a student club, to freely offer Bibles for a personal, peer-to-peer distribution from a manned table in the lunch room during non-instructional time. However, staff with the Stone County Schools put the distribution on hold after becoming concerned by internet research. A "FindLaw" memo regarding "Bible Distribution in the Public Schools" was cited as authority for a directive that students could only leave Bibles unattended on a table for passersby. Yet this memo did not apply to Stone County student clubs, but applied (if at all) only to non-school organizations.
