Judge vetoes free Bible plan

A US federal judge has ordered a state school system to stop allowing in-school Bible giveaways, saying the practice violates the First Amendment separation of church and state.

US District Judge Carl J. Barbier ruled in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana against the Tangipahoa Parish School Board that “distribution of Bibles is a religious activity without a secular purpose” and amounts to school board promotion of Christianity.