{"id":475743,"date":"2016-04-12T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=475743"},"modified":"2016-04-13T09:35:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:35:16","slug":"schools-webpage-modified-after-anti-religion-group-complains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=475743","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s Webpage Modified after Anti-Religion Group Complains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/Troup.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-475744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/04\/Troup-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Troup\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-475744\" \/><\/a>TROUP &#8212; In a statement released Monday afternoon by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), the group claimed a victory over an East Texas school district prominently displaying a Bible verse on their webpage. According to KETK, FFRF stated Troup Independent School District removed a verse from 1 Samuel 17:48: &#8221; As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran to meet him.&#8221; The organization said they contacted the district in a letter on January 28, 2016 to halt their endorsement of religion or the bible.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is well settled that public schools may not advance or promote religion,&#8221; FFRF Staff Attorney Sam Grover wrote Stuart Bird, superintendent of the Troup Independent School District, in January. &#8220;No public school may urge religious viewpoints on students by granting special status to a religious text like the bible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FFRF said they recently learned the school district had modified its website to remove the Bible citation, however, the story of David and Goliath is still present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROUP &#8212; In a statement released Monday afternoon by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), the group claimed a victory over an East Texas school district prominently displaying a Bible verse on their webpage. According to KETK, FFRF stated Troup Independent School District removed a verse from 1 Samuel 17:48: &#8221; As Goliath moved closer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=475743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">School&#8217;s Webpage Modified after Anti-Religion Group Complains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":475744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 15:01:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475747,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475743\/revisions\/475747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/475744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}