Re: Kansas School Board

In article <mJOdnYVs39zoMZDeRVn-jA@xxxxxxx>,
Dan Kimmel <daniel.kimmel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>"fred" <fredr5@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1124897841.709061.185710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>> B Dixon wrote:
>> > >> What's wrong with giving everybody real choice? I know that many
>> > >> people here believe that religion is wrong (and in fact the original
>> > >> public school system was instituted to engender that belief), but I
>> > >> don't see how the First Amendment allows you or the government to
>force
>> > >> that belief on everybody.

>> > The religious groups do not want Choice.

>> > They want Their views presented. Period.

>> > They have no room in their beliefs for anybody else's point of view.
>> > That is why they MUST be opposed.

>> That's a pretty sweeping condemnation of a whole population.

>> How about allowing for a diversity of schools? We already have tech
>> oriented schools, and performing arts oriented schools. Why not stop
>> contorting the First Amendment to make it seem to require redirecting
>> my education budget to pay for a secular education, and allow people to
>> choose among various religious orientations as well? That would not
>> infringe upon your right to choose something else.

>It's no contortion of the First Amendment to say it prohibits your picking
>my pocket to pay for indoctrinating kids in YOUR religious beliefs.

Communism and other varieties of socialism, and Secular
Humanism, as well as other versions of Political
Correctness, are just as religious as any of the various
sects which have their idea of a universe run by a deity
or deities.

What justification is there for grouping by age, and
keeping the bright back, so the dull can try to keep up?
This is at best a religious position. I can give you a
whole bunch of similar positions enforced to a large
extent by the educationists, all of which I consider to
be totally opposed to mental development.

The religious indoctrination of children exceeds what is
learned in subject matter, which is a shadow of what
could be learned.

>Why Jews want to carry water for the evangelical right remains a mystery.

Why they want to produce a major water supply system for
the hyperegalitarian leftists is even worse.



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