The Religious Right's New Tactics for Invading Public Schools

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The Religious Right's New Tactics for Invading Public Schools
By Rob Boston
Church and State Magazine

Thursday 04 October 2007

In mid-August, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed something called the "Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act" into law. Although the new law has an innocuous-sounding title, it's really a ticking time-bomb, opponents say.

The law requires every public school in the state to adopt a policy guaranteeing students' right to religious expression. It mandates that schools create "limited public forums" for religious and other types of speech. A student could, for example, read the morning announcements over a loudspeaker and then lapse into a prayer or mini-sermon.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100407E.shtml
 
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech

Damn BILL OF RIGHTS....gets in the way of Liberal crap more and more....
 
Yeah, Bravo, thats exactly what the supreme court said 45 years ago.

... oh wait! No, that's not at all what they said.
 
I don't see a problem with allowing students to practice their religion within the school. I just don't think it is right for a teacher or school employee to use religion or go into prayer during classes and such. These kids are already forced to go to school, so to tell them that they don't have a right to practice their religion for about 8 hours in a day, I would think is against 1st Amendment.

But for a school to CREATE the forums is going to create some issues. It's going to be subject to discrimination, and some religions won't be represented. The schools should not be the ones organizing religious 'orgies'. I say orgies because religion will mind fuck you...
 
Dave's got it right.

Students can already practice religion at schools. I remember tripping over students who were having a morning prayer gathering at high school every Thursday. Not only that, but Young Life groups met at the school once a week in the evenings.

It's not like religion is pushed away from the schoolhouse. It's that the school can't be providing, with state money, the "forum" as Dave puts it for religious expression. For instance, allowing a student to issue a morning prayer over the loud speaker.

Fuck the fundies.
 
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