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“Complete Victory is Our Objective”: The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools

“It’s coming back ... and it’s our constitutional right!” So declares the homepage of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, a Christian Right organization that urges high schools across the United States to teach elective Bible courses based on its curriculum. The group views its course as a way of bringing the Bible back to its rightful place at the center of American education and of affirming the religious freedom protected by the Constitution. The course is actually more than that: it is also a way of advancing a larger agenda of increasing the role of certain forms of conservative Protestantism in public and governmental life. The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (hereafter, the National Council or the NCBCPS) claims to have enjoyed considerable success thus far, with over 221,000 students taking its course. Though this number may be inflated, it is clear nonetheless that the organization’s influence and visibility are growing; Georgia’s 2006 law encouraging school districts to offer Bible courses incorporated language from National Council promotional materials, as did unsuccessful Tennessee bills.2 Demonstrations of the problematic nature of its curriculum have not diminished its stature within the Christian Right. In fact, the group has become a cause célèbre to some, a status only heightened by the filing of a lawsuit challenging the NCBCPS-based course in Ector County (Odessa), Texas. In that case, the lawsuit was dismissed when the school district agreed to drop the NCBCPS curriculum. 3