You wrote, Creationist parents have an absolute right to send their children to schools that will give them a creationist education. But not at my expense.
Do you realise what you stepped into there? Oh my. What about creationist parents paying for teachers teaching something that opposes their religious convictions? What about my tax money paying for 'Piss Christ' artwork? What about my tax money paying for all the leftist dogma that exhists in public schools? What about my tax money paying for leftist, military-hating professors that should be tied to bombs dropped over Iraq?
What about my tax money being payed to Eric Waldheim's pension? Remember the former nazi the UN hired? My tax money STILL pays for his blinking pension!
And you quibble about a small course on creationism payed for via vouchers if parents get school choice? I think that would be a paltry sacrifice on your part to liberate children from public schools. It is wrong, I agree. But the reality is, parents are not going to vote for abolishing the public school system without government help given in its place.
You started out saying the creationists had a right to their views, and I agreed, adding that you can't teach them that stuff at my expense. I didn't address the flip side of the issue, because earlier in the thread I've agreed with a few posts by people criticizing the government schools.
I quite agree that it's wrong to snatch children from their parents, force them into government education buildings, and then to ram anything into their brains -- even reading, math, and valid science. It's just wrong. Education should be voluntary. So I'm not in disagreement with you.