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2005-04-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

Conservative Group Blasts ACLU for Call to Fine, Jail School Officials

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Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-10 4:24:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sorry, there is a difference between freedom to practice your religion, and license to jam your religion down someone else's throat. And it is often those who just can't resist trying to proseletize who object loudest when others don't want to be assailed, or have their children assailed, much like a mugger who believes he has a right to mug. Granted schools sometimes go to the opposite extreme, trying to prohibit passive expressions of religion; but most of the time, schools, teachers and administrators, some parents and their children want to convert others to their particular religious sect. And it is usually just one or two religious sects with which the problem lies--other religions don't push their members or children to try and vigorously convert others. So when this debate comes up, remember it is not necessarily a "church vs. state" argument, but an "everybody else vs. the obnoxious loudmouths" argument.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-10 12:37:27 PM|| 2005-04-10 12:37:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This problem is also solved by getting rid of government schools. If we had vouchers, you want to send your kids to a religious school, you do, you don't, you don't.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-10 12:43:32 PM|| 2005-04-10 12:43:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder... A thought experiment...

What would ACLU say if the event was greeted by a muezzin yodel... would they be so adamant in opposing "promotion of the koranic faith-based story of creation as opposed to the scientific theory of evolution."

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-10 1:03:04 PM|| 2005-04-10 1:03:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Everybody thinks of the ACLU when stuff like this happens, which is a darn shame. Conservatives should have an equally large organization that also pursues similar ends--bereft of those individuals who use conservatism to further their own agendas. Conservatives, such as the Founding Fathers, who sought neither to elevate religion over the state nor supress it, in theirs, a state "of, by and for the people", whose rules are written by men, not in heaven. A simple ethos, of "live and let live"; more bluntly stated that "your rights end where my nose begins."

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-10 1:36:48 PM|| 2005-04-10 1:36:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Of all the reasons to not send your kids to public school in New Orleans, I'm sure that possibly being exposed to a before-game prayer is at the bottom of the list.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-04-10 1:56:54 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-04-10 1:56:54 PM|| Front Page Top