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To: Sopater

When a HS graduate gives a commencement speech that mentions Jesus, the state is establishing a religion and the students right to free speech and expression of religion must be denied. When a state college decrees there is no god, the state is not establishing a religion. Something ain’t right there.


12 posted on 08/13/2008 9:54:46 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Always Right
When a HS graduate gives a commencement speech that mentions Jesus, the state is establishing a religion and the students right to free speech and expression of religion must be denied.

Government schools can **not** uphold all clauses of the First Amendment simultaneously. It is impossible!

* If government allows free speech it violates establishment of religion, because students **will** talk about their religion with the other captive students.

If it tries not to establish religion, it inadvertently establishes atheism, and also shuts down free speech, free press, free assembly, and free expression of religion. Government also teaches the students that religion is irrelevant, unnecessary, and something so shameful we must be silent about it. This isn't religiously neutral.

When a state college decrees there is no god, the state is not establishing a religion. Something ain’t right there.

Something isn't right. What isn't right is the complete and utter conflict government schooling has with fulfilling all the clauses of the First Amendment simultaneously. This is impossible.

Solution: Begin the process of privatizing government education.

55 posted on 08/13/2008 10:42:12 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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