“We have to think very, very carefully about making it mandatory for public schools because you have the separation of Church and State to consider and that’s Constitutional,” Briones said in an earlier press conference.
Briones noted that Christian schools “encourage” the mandatory bible reading among their students “because that’s part of the curriculum.” She added that private schools are “allowed to do that on their own.” “Although in the textbooks, we have stories based on the bible – stories about Solomon, David, Adam and Eve – but making it mandatory might raise a lot of questions and may trigger also a lot of debates because of the constitutional requirements,” she added.
Earlier, lawyer and education advocate Joseph Noel Estrada cautioned that this proposal is “violative of the principle of separation of Church and State and the Non-Establishment of religion provision in our Constitution.”
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