Posted on 12/13/2004 8:27:50 PM PST by Kuksool
>>>I was just kidding 'bout Jersey.
I wasn't exclaiming sincerely. It is quite common that people just think of the 'turnpike' when Jersey is mentions.
"It must be remembered that the majority rules, while not losing focus on every individuals rights."
BINGO. The problem now is that the individual rights of one person or small group are infringing on the collective rights.
You get the "wicked funny posting of the day award".
Hey, thanks!
You made your point. That's good enough for me.
Yes, I've seen what people write. The response here is richly deserved.
BTTT
If the news (at least here in California) that schools do, and keep doing, things like taking students off campus for medical services (read birth control, abortions, etc.) without the knowledge or consent of their parents didn't cause more than a day's worth of news, then this won't bother most people, unfortunately.
Thank goodness I homeschool and have to deal with precisely 0% of this garbage.
The NEA is indoctrinated. Hate everything that is basic American Christian, and keep preaching endlessly about diversity and multiculturalism. Everything is fine but Christianity which is a zero-tolerance zone for the NEA.
I wonder what the Christian teachers (most of them that is )in my district would say about that.
What is it going to take for parents to do a mass exodus and private or home school their kids?
I guess if we keep using a biased media that looks for anything negative against public education in support of a political agenda, I guess. Wait a minute, that's what liberals do......
You have to attack public schools with money (or removal of money). It does not matter if 1/2 of all students are homeschooled, that leaves the other 1/2 to be indoctrinated with 100% of all the tax dollars.
The best solution is to go beyond vouchers and allow homeschoolers to withold property tax dollars since they will use the money for their own children.
Are you saying these kids and parents Are making this stuff up?
Response; "There comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society that harm them..."-A Great Historian 1888
what a nice man, happy christmas.
'People outside of NYC -- for reasons I never understood -- miscalculate exactly how religious a town NYC actually is...we have two full-scale cathedrals and literally thousands of churches and other houses of worship jammed into a very, very small land mass.'
Those are nothing but empty relics of a noble past. The true sentiments of that city are manifest in those whom it votes for.
How are they empty? People are in them every week. St. John's the Divine isn't even completed yet. NYC just has different politics, which says nothing of its religious tradition.
New York City is laced with churches. That is a fact, but that fact can not be used to signify that that City has a meaningful spiritual life. Certainly there are faithful people who attend them, but those faithful people are in no way influential in the city's political life, which like San Francisco's has caved to the basest human instincts. The Red States elected Bush largely because they thought of him as a moral leader. I dare say no one could ever get elected in New York City on that basis.
The people who attend church or temple regularly in NYC would take extreme issue with your comment as to whether the city -- and by extension, they -- have a meaningful spiritual life. You have to really be careful when you say something like that, but I assume you didn't mean it as an insult.
That said, NYC has a tradition of not letting religion enter public debate. There are notable exceptions to this rule, such as the sporadic activism of the orthodox jews in brooklyn, the out-spoken ministers in Harlem, and comments made from the pulpit at St. Pats. But by and large, religion in NYC is a personal affair and not part of the public discourse.
This is something that is not easily debated, since neither you, nor anyone else, can or should tell someone how to practice their religion -- whether it should be private or public.
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