A satanic group's request to distribute coloring books at a school in Florida has the school administrators consider a ban on all religious materials in district high school.

The Orange County School Board is planning to conduct a public hearing regarding the matter in January next year with a vote to come immediately after that.

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"Religious instruction really belongs in the home, not in the schools," school board chairman Bill Sublette said.

The school board is reconsidering a policy which allowed Bibles to be distributed at schools now that a group called "Satanic Temple" is pushing for the distribution of their coloring books for children.

According to Sublette, "The new policy, if it passes, it still needs to go before the board, will prohibit the distribution of any religious materials in our schools."

Actually, religious groups have been allowed to set up tables and pass out Bibles and booklets in the district's 18 high schools. But Sublette claimed that the "process was abused. We tried to have an open forum but it was becoming disruptive to our educational environment."

In a statement, the Satanic Temple's Lucien Greaves said that the current policy of the school was "a transparent attempt at giving exclusive privilege to an evangelical group."

Greaves asserted that their materials are consistent with the standards of the school, "they can't simply deny our literature because of its religious viewpoint."

Sublette said that when the request from the devil-worshiping group first generated controversy and became a national news, he received 11,000 emails from people all over the country.

The Satanic Temple's coloring book is entitled as "The Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities" and is complete with children performing Satanic rituals as well as drawing pentragrams. The children drawn in the book are wearing Satanic symbols on their shirts and are spreading an anti-bullying and religious tolerance message.

To see the coloring book, click here: http://media.trb.com/media/acrobat/2014-10/23951771289500-30085818.pdf.

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