One of the common criticisms that exists about all those elective Bible courses in public high schools is that they’re just Trojan horses for proselytizing. Even though those courses supposedly examine the Bible for its literary value, or teach it as a way to give students a cultural understanding of Christianity, many teachers wrongly treat the book as if it were true. That’s the job of a pastor, not a public school teacher.

It’s bad enough that these classes are sometimes no different than what you’d find in a church-run Sunday school. But what’s allegedly happening in Tennessee’s East Hamilton Middle School is beyond the pale.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State recently sent a letter to the Hamilton County Schools superintendent detailing the teachings in one of these supposedly secular Bible classes.