To: Impeach the Boy
As for religion in the classroom, most of the Founding Fathers wanted it there...(not theory...can be proven by examination of their letters and other writtings). Our present system of state-run schools didn't exist back then. It pretty much started in the 1840s. But I know one Founding Father's general thinking on the subject:
... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions ...
The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom.
316 posted on
05/03/2006 5:59:41 PM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: PatrickHenry
... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical; Sounds like our present gov't on just about everything!
488 posted on
05/04/2006 6:02:16 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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