Matt Bevin (Credit: AP/Timothy D. Easley/Getty/duckycards) Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin signed into law a bill that will allow courses on the Bible to be taught in public schools beginning on Friday. Overwhelmingly passed by Kentucky’s Republican-controlled state legislature, HB 128 gives Kentucky school boards the option to add elective courses on Bible literacy to their social studies curriculum. “The idea that we would not want this to be an option for people in school, that would be crazy.