I have great difficulty getting in the head of school officials who issue rules like this:

A principal at Karns Elementary School is on shaky constitutional ground after telling a group of young students that they cannot bring their Bibles to school or study them during recess....

Ten-year-old student Luke Whitson used his regularly scheduled recess time to read the Bible with a few friends on his school’s playground. After receiving a complaint from a parent, the school’s principal reportedly ordered the students to stop their activity, put their Bibles away, and cease from bringing their Bibles to school.

This happened last year; the kids were ten years old.

I mean -- how do you rationalize this? You're not allowed to bring this one specific book to school? On what grounds? Are other books banned? Forget the religious overtones -- it strikes me as just as strange as banning any other non-obscene book. I mean, imagine if the principal stated that kids couldn't bring Huck Finn to school or read it during recess -- and just that book.

Of course, you can't leave the religion out of the analysis: that's the main reason the principal is so upset. There is something about this book that bothered her, and she can't stand the idea a bunch of ten-year-olds reading it and being influenced by it.

All that "love your neighbor" stuff is dangerous and subversive, I tell ya.