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To: ratan lal who wrote (8958)	10/26/1999 11:09:00 AM
From: Nandu	Read Replies (2) of 12475

Ratan, I don't know how long your "long time back" is. I too went to Catholic school, some 15-20 years back. There was a chapel attached to the school were masses were conducted and there was half an hour a week dedicated to "catechism", which I gather is religious instruction for Catholics. Only those students who were Catholics were ever asked to attend either of these and the rest of us were happy to leave school half an hour early once a week. But that is neither here nor there. If any Catholic school does employ the kind of tactics that you described, then they should be sued and forced to desist. My personal experience is otherwise. My general objection to the VHP campaign is that regardless of what they say up front, when you probe a little deeper you see that they are opposed to conversions of any kind, and not just those done forcibly. Implicit in Dalmia's statement that everybody should be "free to practice the religion of one's birth" is that one shouldn't be free to change one's religion after birth. That is not an acceptable stand. Btw, I hope you see the similarity between your refusal to do the cross and the objection by Muslims to singing Vande Mataram, or Saraswati Vandanam.

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