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

To: epicure who wrote (53084)	7/16/2002 6:58:37 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

If you take away the parents' rights to inculcate their own children in the parental faith, then you leave the children vulnerable to what the state will provide... I'm not arguing that the right should be taken away from the parent. But you are going beyond the parental right, to imply that the state has absolutely no business to intrude upon that right in the remotest way; NO religious references in the schools, PERIOD. Well, how do you correlate that to other areas that have been traditionally (and perhaps legally) been considered the province of parental rights? Take sex, for example. Suppose I wish to teach sexual abstinence outside of marriage to my children as a RELIGIOUS principle. Do you support that as my right? And if so, do you oppose the introduction of sex ed in the schools? Do you oppose the passing out of condoms in schools? If I wish to teach my children that homosexuality is wrong, and support my teaching with a RELIGIOUS justification --- do you support that as my right? And if so, do you oppose the schools introducing any material about being tolerant of homosexuals? Do you oppose schools providing education on HIV? Do you agree that by doing the things I mention, public schools are intruding upon my right to teach my children the religious beliefs of my choice? I am suggesting here that defining the provinces of parental teaching versus public school teaching may not be as clear as you indicate. BTW, I agree with you about the legal limits to parents' religious rights. Here abouts there has been a big case in Attleboro, MA, where the state took children away from members of a religious who had actually starved a child to death on "instructions from God."