A school bus driver is told he can’t play Christian music while he drives. Its just another outrageous demand from radical atheists.
It’s become common for school bus drivers to play the radio on the way to and from school.
You’d expect parents might be concerned about the lyrics of songs on some stations, since popular music is full of sexual innuendo and other adult content. But a parent in the Siloam Springs School District in Arkansas had a very different complaint.
The parent contacted the school after the driver on one of their buses played a Christian radio station during the school commute. The parent complained that the driver shouldn’t be listening to anything that public school kids could hear that had a religious connection.
The parent also contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin group that is trying to excise religion from all vestiges of American public life.
This is the same group that has demanded that all universities fire chaplains on football teams and sent a threatening letter to Minnesota police officers demanding they stop planning a prayer vigil for an officer killed in the line of duty.
The end result in the school bus drama? Christian radio won’t be playing on the school bus again.
The Siloam Springs school superintendent told a local TV station that the school is supposed to be religiously neutral, and as such has advised the driver to refrain from airing that particular radio station.