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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (53071)7/16/2002 3:36:05 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
You are making this much more complicated than I intended it to be. On behalf of the children, I am simply relating to how they must feel based on how I felt when I was in school and the designated religious tradition was not my own. I wondered why the teacher and the rest of the kids went on to say "and Thine is the kingdom..." while I was saying "amen." I was embarrassed and ashamed. I wondered what was wrong with me and my family that we were outsiders. I seem to have survived it, but I don't think it's a good thing for little kids to experience. If it can be avoided, it should.

It's one thing for a kid to be made to feel weird because he eats dog sandwiches. Almost everyone I have ever told about my Christmas Eve dinner has thought it weird. As immigrants, we can choose to either give up eating dog because that isn't done here or to continue to enjoy that "quaint" tradition recognizing that it may not be favorably received by society. It's different when a kid is given the impression that his religion is somehow wrong, and unpatriotic, in a country that is supposed to respect various religious traditions. It is not reasonable to expect society to respect weird culinary tastes. Nor does it really matter if it does or not. Not so with religion.
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