>Right, but I cannot force you to listen, nor would I wish to. But, I have the right to respond. The problem here is that by forcing God out of schools (for example) the non-God crowd is forcing their POV on those kids who come from a family of faith.

Why does my daughter have to learn Christmas songs in the school then?

>IOW, it would restrict the right of those in the religious community from speaking their minds. Bad law.

What's bad about it? They can still say whatever they want unofficially. Whenever you have someone in some sort of public office talking about any group of people as guilty before trial, that's not going to do anybody any good.

>While I'm not LDS (Mormon) and have some fairly strong disagreements with them in terms of doctrine, I do think they have a good way of dealing with this. They have 'release time' where the kids can go to a church-owned & sponsered building across the street for one period. I think it's one good approach.

And what do the other kids do at the time?

>I'd actually like to see the various religious belief systems taught. Of course, an honest treatment of any of them would lead to howls of anger I suppose as none have clean hands and most are fraught with internal inconsistencies. That would be a real food fight. <g>

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