Re: COLUMBINE AND GOD IN THE SCHOOLS?

["JS M" <jbiggs50@hotmail.com>]

In S. Carolina, a woman was fired from her teaching job for "not 
representing the values of the community".  She was a pagan, practicing 
Wicca, and the leader (?) of a coven.  She had developed a web page 
explaining Wicca, and the page linked to some photos of coven members having 
their bodies ritually painted (that means, naked).  Whose god, indeed?  I'm 
not a strict constitutionalist and can understand the Columbine father's 
pain and the arguments of the S. Carolina community.  However, I think 
there's a very good reason for the seperation of church and state, and that 
means even in public schools.  If you don't like the "values" of the 
teachers/administration, then send the little ones to a private school.  If 
you can't afford a private school, then I guess you'll have to put up with 
all us rif-raf and our little heathens, maybe even those godless teachers.  
Anyone want to talk school vouchers?
jm


>From: Don Coombs <dcoombs@uidaho.edu>
>To: Cliff Fallon <fallon@eecs.wsu.edu>
>CC: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Re: COLUMBINE AND GOD IN THE SCHOOLS?
>Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:54:43 -0800 (PST)
>
>Whose God? If you are open to having all the faiths represented (including
>some I myself consider weird but would never think of identifying
>here) then I guess I see no flaw in your argument--
>
>Unless you were thinking of not allowing atheist and agnostic point of
>views to be represented, even though atheists and agnostics pay taxes.
>
>I found the point that God had been returned to the public schools because
>students prayed during the Columbine massacre --
>
>I found that a little tacky.
>
>There has always been prayer in the schools, as the joke goes, before
>exams. Coercing people into praying your prayer to your God in a public
>school doesn't seem a great idea to me.
>
>But I'll bet you're happy with the U.S. Congress -- rejecting the
>appointment of someone as chaplain because he was a Jew. Apparently the
>chaplain is always a Protestant.
>
>Don H. Coombs
>
>
>

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