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To: greenspirit who wrote (262298)6/9/2002 11:34:34 AM
From: Mr. Whist  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
It's not the role of public schools to teach the Way to Heaven. That's what parents and churches are for. What you and many other right-wing ragers want is for public school teachers to pick up the slack because parents and churches haven't done their job for the past three or four decades.

There's a reason why we have a separation of church and state in this country. Unfortunately, too many right-wing ragers today cannot see the salvation of America except within a fundamentalist Christian public school environment.

And that's unconstitutional.

Actually, I don't think you have a clue as to what the NEA does and doesn't do. The ACLU, not the NEA, has been active in seeking to remove the Ten Commandments from public school buildings.



To: greenspirit who wrote (262298)6/9/2002 11:43:40 AM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
There are many moral compasses by which one can steer one's life other than the ten commandments; it is not the state's role to choose by which compass children steer.

Schools DO instill morality, but should not advocate the particular morality of one subset of the population. We have laws to indicate what is allowed and what is proscribed by society as a whole.

Charles Tutt (SM)