Good answer -- please see my answer, which touches this same point.

H.


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:25 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Religious Freedom


It is a very interesting problem, on the one hand the teacher is practicing
his/her right to the free practice of religion.

But at the same time not teaching the curriculum selected by the school
board, which in an elected body.

The teacher would not be fired because of religious beliefs, but failure to
the job.

At 01:52 PM 1/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm not saying what I believe. I'm asking the question: Why isn't this an
>infringement of the teacher's rights to exercise his or her religion
freely.
>By preventing the teacher from that exercise you are asking the teacher to
>disobey God (per the scenario I drafted). Should the government be able to
>force a person to disobey God?  If so, what is the constitutional argument
>for such as case when the First Amendment says clearly that we have a right
>to freely follow our religious beliefs as we see fit?

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