MOUNT VERNON — After meeting with Mount Vernon school authorities Wednesday, representatives of the Mount Vernon chapter of Minutemen United have repeated their demand for a public statement on whether a classroom teacher is permitted to have a Bible on his or her desk.
Superintendent Steve Short said Wednesday he would make no public statement until an investigation into the alleged use of a Bible to proselytize students is complete.
In the second letter to Short, also released to the News, minutemen spokesman Jeff Cline asks whether the Bible is permitted on the desk of a classroom teacher in the Mount Vernon schools, and requested a public response.
“Although we do not want this to be taken as a threat,” the letter reads in part, “we feel it is only right that we inform you that if a public statement is not made in support of the Bible by June 10 we will have no other choice than to begin a recall procedure on all members of the School Board who voted to ban the Bible from the view of the children.”
