Arizona House OKs Bible Class in Public School

A last-minute proposal by Ed Ableser, a Tempe Democrat, to add the Book of Mormon and two other Mormon texts to the course was denied.

Of course, it was denied. And so should this course be denied.

I think that a comparative religion course that discussed ancient religions and laws would be enlightening.

Students should learn of "The Book of the Dead"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead

The nature of the afterlife which the dead person enjoyed is difficult to define, because of the differing traditions within Ancient Egyptian religion. In the Book of the Dead, the dead were taken into the presence of the god Osiris, who was confined to the subterranean Duat. There are also spells to enable the ba or akh of the dead to join Ra as he travelled the sky in his sun-barque, and help him fight off Apep.^[35] As well as joining the Gods, the Book of the Dead also depicts the dead living on in the 'Field of Reeds', a paradisaical likeness of the real world.

If all the obstacles of the Duat could be negotiated, the deceased would be judged in the Weighing of the Heart ritual, depicted in Spell 125. The deceased was led by the god Anubis into the presence of Osiris. There, the dead person swore that he had not committed any sin from a list of 42 sins,^[43] reciting a text known as the "Negative Confession".

Students should learn of ancient law systems ...including the Code of Hammurabi (which mirrors and pre-dates the Ten Commandments) as well as many others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_legal_codes

It is never acceptable or legal for public schools to teach the Bible as fact or as a basis for US laws, morals, or culture because that is complete BS.