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To: curiosity
Individuals have no say as to what gets put into a book in a public school.

The majority has just trampled on my rights, and has just confiscated my hard-earned money to push a religious belief I do not share. The whole point of the establishment clause fo the First Amendment, applied to the states by the 14th Amendement, is to stop majorities (or, more frequently, activist minorities) from forcing their religious beliefs on the minority.

What imagined right has the school board trampled on by the mere use of a sticker? You must be a worshipper of the clean book god. And you are right, the school board is elected just as is Congress. By your definition we have no say in anything passed by Congress. That would be ludicrous. My point is pretty clear, the study of biology is not a right that has to be provided by schools.

And your minority argument is extremely weak, as any person could claim that teaching evolution tramples on their religious freedom, since you have defined a mere sticker as evidence of religion, they, likewise, could claim unwitnessed transitions from beast to beast are religious dogma.

193 posted on 01/18/2005 6:24:32 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: AndrewC
What imagined right has the school board trampled on by the mere use of a sticker?

The right not to have religious beliefs presented as facts to my kids in a tax-funded school.

220 posted on 01/20/2005 2:05:06 PM PST by curiosity
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