Your child is free to practice whatever religion he wants in school, as long as it doesnt' impose on the other childrens rights.
Your childs teacher is not free to impose his religion on the children at all, which is as it should be. --Beth, Pseudo usenet cop Merlin MTB, BikeE AT, RANS gliss, Trek R200, Kickbike Owned by Kavik (Samoyed Boy) and Toklat (Keeshond Boy) Anchorage, Alaska ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:38 PM Subject: RE: Enron executive commits suicide > Like I said, "not all encompassing", and I wasn't saying that I was > quoting fact, just "good insight". My point is that the whole thing has > gone to far. Let anybody practice any religion wherever they want, > including school. > > Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maureen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Enron executive commits suicide > > > Not even close. The doctrine of separation of church and state springs > from the desire of the framers of the constitution to avoid the problems > > that occurred in England with the protestant/catholic battles waged by > the > monarchy starting with Henry the VII. > > The Baptist church was strongly in support of this doctrine, as were > most > of the non-Catholic denominations. > > Most of the current vocal opponents of separation don't want religion in > > schools, they want Christianity in schools. They want Christian > prayer. Allow all religions to pray in school and see how loudly they > scream when the little wiccan kids start dancing around the maypole, and > > the Muslims kneel in the hall to pray toward Mecca. > > For an anaylis of this, including copies of the discussions and debates > of > the framers, go here: > http://members.tripod.com/~candst/toc.htm > > > At 03:53 PM 1/25/02, Mark wrote: > >I just really think the whole separation of church and state has been > so > >misconstrued it's not even funny. Not that this is all encompassing, > but > >the book, "Birth of the Nation", gave some good insight. Way back in > the > >day, churches were funded by the local government. It just so happened > >that Protestants were the dominating religion of the day. Therefore the > >Catholics and the Jews got screwed and had a hard time practicing their > >faith. It was determined that it wasn't fair to fund just the > >Protestants, so funding was taken away and everybody was free to > >practice their religion of choice. Thus, the separation of church and > >state - nothing more, nothing less. > > > >For some reason, separation of church and state has morphed into, you > >can't pray in school, you can hardly mention God (and I guess you can't > >mention Satan now either), without the ACLU breathing down your neck. > >The ACLU needs to find better things to do with their time. > > > >Mark > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:37 PM > >To: CF-Community > >Subject: Re: Enron executive commits suicide > > > > > >I also hearby declare that Jesus is also banned from the list. > > > >Since I'm not God, a Dinowitz, or the government my declaration doesn't > >really matter, but I imagine if I was one of the above a lot of people > >would > >be pretty pissed. > >That's the entire point... > > > >jon > >.Playing Devil's Advocate for a more open minded cf-community ;-) > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Mark Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:05 PM > >Subject: RE: Enron executive commits suicide > > > > > > > OMG!!! What is this world coming to?????? I do understand that > people > > > have rights and everything, but this is a little to much. > > > > > > Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I hereby declare that Satan, the master of > >eeeviiiilll > > > and the tempter of all things bad (including Wendy's #3 Biggie > Size), > >is > > > banned from the cf-community list and all cf related list for that > > > matter!!!!! > > > > > > Hail Mary, full of grace. Yada, yada, yada... > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
