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To: PhilipFreneau
Maybe, maybe not; but one of the communist goals is to: "Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state"."
Not from schools....from private schools. Communists of course also seek to eliminate those. Libertarians strongly support such schools.

No one is saying that private schools can't have all the prayers they want. What those of us who believe in separation are saying is that since public schools subsist on tax dollars and can in many cases compel attendance, they must be considered an agency of the government and therefore must not show religious preference.

-Eric

107 posted on 08/28/2003 4:49:58 AM PDT by E Rocc (Animal House: The movie that inspired more campus misbehavior than Vietnam)
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To: E Rocc
>> What those of us who believe in separation are saying is that since public schools subsist on tax dollars and can in many cases compel attendance, they must be considered an agency of the government and therefore must not show religious preference.

I doubt I will ever understand liberterians. But I do know that removal of prayer in public school, and removal of all referenced to God in public places, was never the intent of the Founding Fathers, nor the intent of those who ratified the 14th Amendment. From what you said, it appears liberterians support usurpation. I do not.



114 posted on 08/28/2003 5:37:07 AM PDT by PhilipFreneau
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