-Caveat Lector-
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Amelia wrote:
>You are stating Helms point exactly.
The hell I am!
Helms wants to FORCE local schoolboards to allow the BSA to hold meetings
in local schools, else he'll see to it that federal funds are withheld.
What I am saying is that no federal bureaucrat should be allowed to
blackmail local schoolboards -- duly elected by local townspeople and
ostensibly representing those local interests. If local interests deem
that a particular group should not be allowed access to schools for their
meetings, the federal government has no right to intervene.
That would apply if the tables were reversed. You applaud Helms' stance,
but what would you say if a schoolboard DID ban a gay and lesbian group,
and some liberal congresscritter introduced a bill saying that local
schoolboards HAD to allow gay and lesbian groups to meet in their schools
else risk losing federal funding?
You wouldn't be so quick to applaud such a measure, would you? Yet it is
the same thing. If you allow a conservative congresscritter to dictate
what a local schoolboard can and cannot do, then you equally allow
liberal congresscritters to do the same.
Instead of dismissing the issue with 'local schoolboards have had little
local autonomy since the 1950s', you should be fighting the continuing
encroachment of the federal government into the local autonomy, not
encouraging further encroachment...
June
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