Posted on 05/11/2008 6:03:42 PM PDT by DeweyCA
OH!
I love the used book store!!
I hope you found all sorts of treasures!
We have a ton of books we need to take in.
Hopefully soon!
The kids bring their job money and they think they’ve won the lottery!
It’s a RARE “hot day in May” here in Seattle.
It’s 9:45 and already 70 degrees!
This is UNHEARD of!
We’re going to do some fun “stuff” outside...
I tried to exchange Pat for a Henry James short story collection and a stack of Shakespeare histories, but the owner insisted on cash :-).
Enjoy your warm weather. It’s only in the 60’s here, at 12:30. This calls for a nap.
Did you tell him Pat IS a book?
Perhaps he would reconsider?
Although whomever bought him might find it inconvenient when the first aliens came for a visit...
Hope you had a happy nap...it is now 84 degrees here at 2:00pm...
Seattlites are NOT equipped for anything hotter than this...
We’ll see if we melt..
I respectfully disagree that government and our freedoms cannot coexist.
The problem is that state lawmakers have never gotten their acts together by making tax laws that compliment our 1st A. freedoms. For example, it is not right to expect taxes collected from Muslim taxpayers, for example, to help pay for Holy Bibles for public schools.
The truth of the matter is that the states have never implemented Jefferson's good advice for integrating laws with the beliefs of a given community. Consider the following.
"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
I did **not** say that government and freedom could not coexist. I said that government **schools**, freedom of conscience, and the First Amendment can not coexist. Big difference!
Government schools have a choice:
1) They can allow First Amendment freedoms and freedom of conscience. The result of course is chaotic, unsafe, and absolutely ineffectual schools in which education is impossible.
or...
2) They can violate First Amendment Rights, and have safe and orderly schools.
In both cases a religiously neutral education is impossible. In the case of this particular article. The government school can not simultaneously support and not support the gay agenda. The government school must choose. In either case the government will be establishing, upholding, and supporting the religious worldview of some while, trashing that of the other.
There is a solution: Privatize all K-12 education.
I respectfully disagree anyway.
When public schools cave into politically correct interpretations of our basic freedoms, then you've got problems. But if public schools respect the Constitution, its history and people's 14th a protections, then I don't have a problem with "government" schools.
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