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CNN article: Parents challenge weekly Bible classes

This is positively upsetting. Super-quick version: a few parents in a school district in the Shenendoah Valley in Virginia are protesting weekly school trips to a church for Bible lessons. And they're losing the fight! I don't think the injustice of this is clear from just what I've said here. Allow me to pull a couple quotes:

Without religious classes, he said, "kids get into trouble and have no moral structure on which to combat drugs, sex, pornography and all that."
[How about ... I dunno ... moral parenting?]

The lessons were conducted inside public school classrooms until 1948, when the Supreme Court ruled that the lessons violated the principle of separation of church and state. A few years later, the court revisited the issue and approved classes held away from school premises.
[Oh for the love of god how does that make sense!!!???]

Beverly Ridell [...] teaches first- and second-grade Sunday school at church and opposes religious classes during school time. "I asked them whether Jesus was a Christian and they said 'yes.' When I said, 'Jesus was a Jew,' one girl said, 'But Jesus was a good person,"' Ridell said.
[How depressing. Our schools essentially teaching religious bigotry. Sigh.]