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To: Amendment10

Would you support giving Muslim creationist / ID supporters equal time?


207 posted on 04/20/2008 3:24:30 PM PDT by tokenatheist (Can I play with madness?)
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Would you support giving Muslim creationist / ID supporters equal time?

Please open your mind and consider the following.

Jefferson promoted the idea of wards, "little republics," in a given state. In these little republics Muslims, for example, could choose to promote only Muslim religious values in Muslim community public schools. Likewise for Christians in Christian communities.

Mixed faith communities could optionally decide that no religious teaching would be conducted in their public schools, for example.

"My proposition [to divide every county into wards and to establish in each a free school] had for a further object, to impart to these wards those portions of self-government for which they are best qualified, by confiding to them the care of their poor, their roads, police, elections, the nomination of jurors, administration of justice in small cases, elementary exercises of militia; in short, to have made them little republics, with a warden at the head of each, for all those concerns which, being under their eye, they would better manage than the larger republics of the county or State. A general call of ward meetings by their wardens on the same day through the State, would at any time produce the genuine sense of the people on any required point, and would enable the State to act in mass." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:400

219 posted on 04/20/2008 3:44:44 PM PDT by Amendment10
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