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To: mcg1969

I think it's pretty sad that the churches in the community are apparently unwilling to make their facilities available for such afterschool meetings.


34 posted on 08/16/2004 10:41:48 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Alan Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green
First of all, you have no evidence that the churches in the are would not have welcomed such a lecture.

Secondly, it is impractical to ask a bunch of students, many of whom probably don't have cars, to travel away from the school to another facility for an after-school event. By holding the event on campus many people who by their own free will wanted to attend were likely able to do so, when they would not have been were it held somewhere else.

And finally, you're simply diverting the issue to keep from addressing the central point: if a school opens its facilities for after-school use by student-organized meetings, it cannot discriminate based on the content of those meetings. So if they let an atheist organization meet, or a Republican organization meet, the must also permit a Christian group to meet as well.

41 posted on 08/16/2004 10:48:38 AM PDT by mcg1969
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