Justice Brennan's well-known statement, concurring in Schempp, 374 US at 300:
teaching about the Bible in classes in literature or history is
permissible. As literature, surely teaching about the Bible is different from
other literature items, distinctively involving the necessity of treating
Having seen some of the material already at use in many Bible courses in
Texas, I can only say that the State board of education is being incredibly
irresponsible in not spelling out exactly what can and can't be taught in
such classes. Local school districts are inevitably going to teach this
