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To: hal jordan who wrote (577)	9/5/1998 11:21:00 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1542

Hi hal, I would like to apologize to you for something I said almost two years ago that has remained on my mind and heart. I know that you have made many false accusations against me in the last two years, but I feel that I was at least partially responsible for starting our communications on the wrong footing. The words and implications that I want to publicly apologize about are the words that connected you to the radical and racist elements of Zionism. Even at the beginning of our dicussions, you always denied any support for the radical doctrines and ideas of former Rabbi Meir Kahane and other equally radical Zionist elements. When I went back and read some of our discussions, I noticed that I continued to assume that you supported these elements even when you had clearly denied that support. I humbly apologize for associating you with political and philosophical ideas that you have publicly condemned. I know that this apology does little to appease some of our other poltical and religious differences, but I felt I had to tell you this. Emile

To: hal jordan who wrote (577)	9/5/1998 11:29:00 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1542

hal, Yes. Each school, each district and each state should establish their own guidelines according to the desires of the majority. If a Jewish community in Brooklyn desires to establish their public school as a Jewish public school they have the constitutional right to do so. If a Christian community in Missouri or La. desire to establish their public schools as a Christian public school, they are guranteed that right through the constitution. If a predominate Moslem community want to establish their public school as a Moslem based school, they are given that right by the constitution. The First Amendment forbids Congress from interferening with the religious rights of citizens and states. If a state has a 95% Chritian population, they have the right to establish a public educational system that is based upon Christianity. The First Amendment gurantees that right. Only the shrill cries of an antichristian news media has pre-empt the constitution of the citizens in the last 40-50 years. In my youth, christianity was taught in all public schools in America. Bible passages and the Lord's prayer were a common way to stary the public school day. The antichristian news moguls have enundated the airwaves with their shrill and false interpretation of the constitution. The minorities in the local community who do not want to particiapte in the majority educational system may create their own schools with their own religious preferences. Why should the majority religious group in America (amost 90% of American calim a Christian background) have to accomadate the minorities instead of the minorities accomodate the majority? Emile