Georgia May OK Bible as Textbook

If anyone has any doubt as to the influence of the religious right on American education just take a brief look at this from the Christian Science monitor: Georgia may OK Bible as textbook | csmonitor.com. Aside from the obvious problems such as will the bible be read in the original Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek? If read in translation just whose translation will be considered appropriate? Will differences of interpretation between Jewish, Catholic and protestant exegesis be considered as the Bible is read in class? If this is not a ploy to introduce a state religion then I must be far more naive than I thought I might be. I find it a troubling attempt to skirt around the first amendment establishment clause by cloaking the Bible in the guise of an academic study. Perhaps this is an appropriate course for a private, parochial school or religious seminary, but to introduce the Bible (as if there is but one version) in publicly supported institutions seems to me to be an egregious breach of public trust. But, it is Georgia after all. Oh, by the way, will other sacred texts be considered (e.g., the Koran, the Bagivad Gita, the Tao, the I Ching) as appropriate for a comparative study? Oh, the problems just mount one on the other.