Somebody needs to read Article I of the Amendments to the Constitution. It’s crystal clear. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion OR PROHIBTING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF, OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Covers both the freedom of religion and freedom of speech in one clear and concise mandate, applicable to government at any level. Have to wonder, what part of this is difficult to understand.
Government must be removed from all aspects of education. When government runs schools, government **will** trash First Amendment Rights and use the threat of police action to force taxpayers to pay for it.
Why?
Reason: Because all schools must restrict First Amendment Rights of speech, press, assembly, and exercise of religion to maintain order and safety. Also...It is **impossible** to have a religiously, cultural, and politically neutral education. Can't happen because such a state of neutrality can not exist in the mind of any human.
Private schools have no problem with the First Amendment because they are freely chosen by the parents. The parents, teachers, principal, and members of the private board running the school all mutually agree upon those restrictions needed to maintain order and safety.
There is no religiously neutral option open to the government schools;
1) Forbidding the discussion of Christianity is not religiously neutral. It teaches children that faith must be hidden away as if it were a bathroom activity.
2) Allowing free expression of religion means that captive children will be subjected to the religious beliefs of their neighbor's child. Today, that means atheism, paganism, Mormonism, Islam, Wicanism and the rest.
3) Godless schools are not religiously neutral. Children in these schools **will** learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it be otherwise?
It is a persons expressed belief, spoken of as we do with or about our daily life with friends, and as an expression of our belief. Just like politics, some are liberal, some or conservative, some or libertarians, and some ignore the whole thing.
We are free to express our opinion, including our faith. Yet it is being suppressed at school and as recently ... the well accomplished naval Chaplin,counselor that is possibly being drummed our of his career for mentioning to one seeking advice, that he was settled by his faith in Christ/God. How is it wrong for him to express what serves and supports him?a