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  • Dickens classic too religious for school

    12/09/2004 5:48:45 AM PST · by lightman · 59 replies · 1,099+ views
    Worldnet Daily ^ | December 9, 2004 | Worldnet Daily
    A high school principal canceled a dramatic performance of Charles Dicken's classic "A Christmas Carol," partly because he feared it would raise questions about the place of religion in public schools. Mark Robertson, principal of Lake Washington High School near Seattle said his cancellation of a private theater group's Dec. 17 performance on campus primarily was because school policy prohibits charging admission. But he said if admission were free, it would have prompted a "secondary discussion about public school and religion,'' the King County Journal reported. When schools in the Lake Washington School District include religion in their curriculum, they...
  • American "Freedom": Can it Shed Its Enlightenment Roots?

    06/26/2002 4:20:27 PM PDT · by cathway · 2 replies · 186+ views
    TCRNews.com ^ | 6/26/02 | Stephen Hand, editor TCRNews.com
    "And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away [with] all this artificial scaffolding..." ---Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 April, 1823; Adams-Jefferson Letters, ed. Lester J. Cappon II, 594 " Most people's sex lives...are coming into closer accord with their true desires. I've often thought one attack...