"Doug Stoner", a member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party, is a former state senator from Georgia (U.S. state)/Georgia and a candidate to be chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party.

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This is a good first step. We didn't want this to turn into a partisan fight because I think we can all agree we support the idea of teaching an elective course about the Bible.

I can't see why anyone would disagree with this. If they do, they either object directly to any teaching about the Bible or they have a political agenda they haven't made public yet.