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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (41206)	6/20/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 108807

Sidney, what she means is that they may share the moral code without "accepting" the commandments per se.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (41206)	6/20/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Sidney, and Christopher, I wouldn't object to a series of moral strictures on which parents could agree being posted in my child's school. My objection is to the public school teaching that there is a supernatural God who 'commanded' these things. I wouldn't object, though many would, to having a 'morning meditation.' I wouldn't even mind if there were an ethical precept or homily suggested as a subject for thought. That is what happened at Brooklyn Friends School during our monthly meetings. The school was Quaker, but there were students there of many religions, and I never felt an 'outsider' there. Subjects were suggested such as 'charity,' and 'loyalty,' and 'truthfulness,' and 'goodness,' and 'generosity.' I believe evolution is treated as a theory insofar as it is taught at all, now, in public schools. I am very uncomfortable with condoms being given out in schools in which there are parents who believe premarital sex is immoral, although I myself don't believe that, because the distribution does appear to be a sanction, however hedged around with reservations. And I'm uncomfortable with the school not doing what it can to save the lives of those young people who are going to have sex (whatever their parents' position is) too immature to figure out for themselves and do it what they need to to not get AIDS. It feels very like a life and death issue to me. I don't know yet how I would resolve this issue. I am very uncomfortable with the gun situation in this country; but I (alone among our friends) believe the right to own a gun is guaranteed by our Constitution. Of course I believe in certain controls and constraints.