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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (139893)	2/26/2002 6:57:33 PM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 164684

i was teasing you. i did not take what you said to mean that i was crazy. it won't offend me if you call me crazy anyway. some girl from idaho just called me a kook the other day and i just had to laugh. perhaps she felt that way because she is a teacher and i told her if i had it my way the education dept would be abolished. he, he, he.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (139893)	2/27/2002 1:40:43 PM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 164684

apparently only teaching judeo-christian values violates the establishment clause in california! i guess the first amendment doesn't apply the same with islam. what a joke california is becoming. your fellow califronians can't even keep the power on and you are being overrun by a bunch of fags, illegals, and radical multiculturalists! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Islam for kids: Required course examiner.com A textbook used in public schools, including in San Francisco's schools, is creating a divide over its method of presenting Islam to children. Is it education or indoctrination, many wonder. The question centers on a middle school curriculum, one mandated by the California Department of Education, that asks seventh-graders to build mosques, to pretend they are going on a pilgrimage to Mecca and to memorize Islam's Five Pillars of Faith. While a spokesman for the San Francisco Unified School District says he had not heard of any problems, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a national nonprofit multicultural watchdog organization, claims all middle schools have gone too far. The teachings prompted one Christian legal organization to prepare a lawsuit and angered activist Bob Simonds, a former Orange Coast College professor, enough to call for a national Christian boycott of public schools. But Muslims say everyone is just overreacting. "The intention is to learn," said Helal Omeira, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "It's not about conversion."

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (139893)	2/27/2002 1:45:47 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

"separation of church and state" is all a bunch of hogwash anyway. nowhere does it say that in the constitution. furthermore, the first amendment does not prohibit prayer in public school or posting the ten commandments on government property in indianapolis or anything of the sort. technically there is nothing in the constitution preventing those dumbshits down in california from indoctrinating kids with islam, judaism, christianity or any other religion.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (139893)	2/27/2002 2:07:47 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Tenth Amendment The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i don't see how it could be any clearer. congress is prohibited by the first amendment from establishing religion, so it is reserved to the states or to the people. nowhere in the constitution does it prohibit establishment of religion at the state level. unfortunately those activist usurpers in the supreme court and most of ignorant america believe that some mythical clause of "separation of church and state" in the constitution means religion must be removed from all levels of government.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (139893)	2/27/2002 2:32:30 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

"...the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." --Abraham Lincoln from his First Inaugural Address - Monday, March 4, 1861