Suit Threatened Over High School Bible History Course

Texas' East Central Independent School District is one of many which have begun to offer high school courses using The Bible in History and Literature curriculum. (See prior posting.) Now David Newman, a professor at Odessa College is threatening to sue, according to a report in yesterday's Odessa American. Newman objects that the teacher for the course, James Salisbury, is a Baptist minister. Newman also objects to the fact that the King James version of the Bible is the basis for the course. He says this gives the course a Protestant slant.