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To: WildHorseCrash
Current law is in error to the extent it establishes nontheistic science in public schools. The Constitution does not support such a practice, but encourages freedom of religious expression both in public and in private, whether in a scientific, philosophical, or theological context. It also encourages, among other things, nontheistic science.
351 posted on 01/20/2006 8:25:03 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Current law is in error...

You are free to believe anything about what the law should be, but the law does mandate secular education. (And properly so.)

353 posted on 01/20/2006 8:34:01 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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To: Fester Chugabrew
The Constitution does not support such a practice, but encourages freedom of religious expression both in public and in private, whether in a scientific, philosophical, or theological context. It also encourages, among other things, nontheistic science.

Your argument is interesting, but the law is well settled.

It all boils down to taxation -- public schools are funded by taxes, and we all pay them. That includes Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Hindus, etc., etc., etc.

There is nothing so galling as being forced to fund somebody else's religion. Jefferson and Madison recognized that, hence the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and the First Amendment. In their day it was the Baptists being taxed to fund the Episcopalians.

You're free to believe whatever you want, but you can't use my tax money to proselytize your religion.

380 posted on 01/21/2006 2:04:05 AM PST by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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