Equity policy (pro-homosexual) bans Gideon Bibles
HAMILTON, Ontario , June 15, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Trustees of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board voted this week to ban the distribution of Gideon Bibles in their schools, marking an end to a long tradition of giving grade 5 students, with parental consent, their own copy of the Scriptures. School boards in Toronto, Peel, Durham, York and Bruce counties have already banned the Bibles . The Gideons, an evangelical Protestant association based in Nashville, Tennessee , have been placing Bibles containing the New Testament plus the Psalms and Proverbs from the Old Testament in Canadian public schools since 1936. “We have institutions that do this already and they’re called churches,” said board chair Tim Simmons, according to a Hamilton Spectator report . “Maybe churches need to look at the job they do to provide this type of material and not put it on a public school system where we don’t have the resources, we don’t have the manpower, we don’t have t