As the boys & girls of the elementary and junior high schools in Davenport, Iowa, filed out of assembly, a book was handed to each of them. The book: the New Testament, plus the Book of Psalms and the Book of Proverbs. But last week, after the Gideon Bible Society had given away more than 2,500 copies, the Davenport Board of Education called a halt. Rabbi Abram Vossen Goodman of Davenport's Temple Emanuel had protested. Wrote he:
"The distribution of sectarian literature violates the historic separation between church and state. Although acceptance of the material distributed by the Gideons is on a...
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