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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (52262)	7/4/2002 12:58:28 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Do you mean the banning of the book? How is that analogous to a group pledge? On top of that, reading Tom Sawyer is not a religious exercise. There is a huge difference, imo, with a religious phrase being uttered en masse in a governmental setting, especially where children are "captive"- legally required to be there, led by an authority figure, and the objection to a secular piece of literature, on the grounds that secular things in it offend the religious. In a non-religious state, where a religion is offended by the purely secular, it is not the duty of the state to make the secular religious. Religions must find ways to live without the imprimatur of the State, and without imposing religious demands to be carried out by the State- e.g. that books be banned for everyone because they offend some.