GEORGIA'S NEW BIBLE CLASS
And this is controversial why?

Georgia has passed a bill to allow classes on the Bible in public schools:

Public school students will be able to take state-funded courses devoted to the Old and New Testaments under a bill that received final legislative approval Monday, making Georgia the first state in the nation to legally sanction Bible classes....

If Gov. Sonny Perdue accepts the bill, the State Board of Education must adopt curricula for two high school electives — "History and Literature of the Old Testament Era" and "History and Literature of the New Testament Era" — no later than February.

Local school systems then could decide if they want to offer the classes, which would be optional for students in ninth through 12th grades.

Patrick McAllister, a junior at McIntosh High School in Peachtree City, liked the idea of having a class about what is often referred to as the world's best-selling book.

"We do have the opportunity to learn about it in church, but it is a work of literature," McAllister said. "We shouldn't exclude it [from school] just because it's religious."

The courses are supposed to be designed as an academic study of the Scripture's influence on law, history, government, literature, art, music and culture.

The Bible would be the "basic text" for the courses, but teachers could use other religious books, too.

Would there be any problems raised if the class were called "History and Literature of the Era of the Koran" or "Confucius: His Writings & Times"? Yeah, that's what I thought.