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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Prayer in schools and WHY
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 11:28:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 11:28:40 1984
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>>> I will first say that religion has and does have a great effect on our
>>> society.  This can be seen simply by looking at history.

>>> From there, I will state that children should be aware of the various
>>> religous beliefs that they will encounter in their fellow children
>>> and in their life.

>>> I do believe in religion in school.  I believe as sure as they have
>>> social studies, or perhaps as part of social studies, the basis behind
>>> people's religous beliefs should be explained...

Education about religion is NOT the same as practicing it.  Teaching
kids about religious beliefs is laudatory, although I'm sure that
our public schools do not have the competence to pull it off.  Forced
prayer, of course, is unconscionable, as that is the inculcated practice
of religion.  The state has no business telling any kid of mine how to
do that, or indeed, to do that at all.

No, there are some subjects that don't need laboratory sessions.
I'd like kids to know about drugs, or even cannibalism, for example,
but I'd rather that they weren't given the opportunity to try them out.
Not in my schools--on my tax dollars--anyway.
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