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“Straw men my ass.

You’re prohibiting free exercise of religion in the government arena. Private citizens, be they 8 or 80, handing out candy canes with biblical text hardly counts as proselytizing on behalf of the government.”

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Leaving your ass out of the conversation, you and your kids can believe anything you want. But public school is not the place to play missionary.

However, if you feel that strongly about it, perhaps you’d be okay with little Ahmed giving your daughter a veil to wear at school.

Better yet, maybe a Dianic Wiccan can hand out quotes from the Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries to your kid and invite to visit the local coven.

Then we’ve got Holiness Pentacostal kids who would be more than happy to hand out a couple of rattlesnakes for a little snake handling in the name of God.

How about some religious tracts from a polygamous Mormon child? Think your kid should learn the “good news” of polygamy and the advantages of becoming an elder’s teenage wife #5?

What about Scientology? Time for a few L. Ron Hubbard books for your kids?

Or Jehovah’s Witnesses? Isn’t it time that your child learn why it’s wrong to have blood transfusions?

Absurd? Who draws the line? You’re claiming the authority to do so on behalf of a single religion.

Get off the high horse.

And no, I won’t tolerate your intolerance. Want to start a religious crusade by manipulating your own children to be missionaries for it, do it somewhere outside of an elementary public school.

If you support the attempt to convert elementary school children in public schools behind the backs of their parents, what else would you support?

It’s the same rationale that those promoting homosexuality, saving the environment, and a host of other issues use to do the same thing.

They think they know better than the parents what is best for the kids.

Stick to raising your own kids and leave mine alone.