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 Boone County Schools students in Kentucky will see the distribution of both Gideon International Bibles and The Young Atheists Survival Guide book, after the Christian organization and a local atheist group were given permission to hand out literature.

Gideons International and the Tri-State Freethinkers group will reportedly offer Bibles and by Hemant Mehta's book on Tuesday, Fox 19 reported.

In a short email message to The Christian Post on Tuesday, Gideons Director of Communications Jeff Pack said: "From our standpoint, what work we do is through the school board and we follow whatever direction they give us. That¹s our standard practice."

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Creation Museum President and CEO Ken Ham, whose organization is based in Kentucky, has expressed opposition to the distribution of atheist material.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/gideon-bibles-and-atheist-literature-being-handed-out-to-kentucky-students-120871/

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