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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (579)	9/5/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: wallacestevens	Read Replies (2) of 1542

Why should the majority religious group in America (amost 90% of American calim a Christian background) have to accomadate the minorities instead of the minorities accomodate the majority? When freedom of (or from) religion is guaranteed to every citizen, then no majority can ever rule just because it is the majority. If only one student in a public school was not of the religion of every other student, then it would unconstitutional for that student to be subjected to the rites and rituals of the majority. That is why public schools cannot be places of worship. In fact, it is in our best interests as citizens to insist that public schools are free from the practice of religion. This creates the framework for joining together in our commonality instead of reinforcing dividing lines. As I have alluded to before, if your faith doesn't work unless everyone around you is spouting out the same lines, then it is built on sand, not rock. If you so desperately need to make everyone else be like you, then you are slapping god's face -- after all, didn't he create everything and everyone? How dare you find fault with it?

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