I've been reading this for a bit before chiming in. I would not necessarily be happy about my children seeing some nude statue either, even as part of an art trip. And I believe in exposing children to art.
I'm not a Christian, and this is not a "deeply held religious conviction." It's a sense of what's appropriate with kids. That said, I really don't think one parent's complaint about an art trip should be cause to get a teacher fired. And the parents were forewarned. So I do see some unfairness here. But blaming a parent for protesting against something they were not happy about in a school is unfair as well. Who says the parent demanded that the teacher be fired? You don't know that. I don't blame the parent, Christianity or religion. I blame the school. Judith ----- Original Message ----- > "Do you have a better explanation? Where does your chain of logic, with > the facts and assumptions you can make, lead you?" > There aren't any facts other than a woman got fired because parents > complained. I don't make any assumptions about what happened. You made > an > opinionated assertion and stated it as fact. > > "Every church listed in town is Christian." > Most churches are Christian. Moslems have mosques, Jews have temples, > Buddists and Shintos have monasteries (don't they?). Unless it's a Church > of Scientology or Unitarian, it's probably Christian. > > "The most likely explanation I can imagine for the firing..." > That's all you did, you imagined it. > > " If the teacher was fired because of complaints stemming from the > museum trip, what do you think the reason for the complaints was?" > Children seeing things that their parents don't think they should have > seen > at their age. > > "If the complaints were due to the nude, what inspired the complaints?" > Good parenting. > > "So, my chain of logic, with those few facts and deductions that ARE > available, lead me to my conclusion that the teacher was most likely > fired due to pressure from Christian parents offended by the nude art > seen on the museum trip." > OK, but never did you say "most likely" in your post. You claimed it was > Christian fundamentals at fault for this and grouped the story in with a > story that *was* about some fundies and tried to make it stick. This is a > totally GWBush thing to do, like saying Iraq took part in 9-11, or had > WMD, > to justify going to war with them. You made a claim and you have no > evidence to back it up. > > "But it HAS been a fun thread" > Yeah, it's fun to hate somebody for their religion, isn't it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216283 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
