Maybe we can arrange a migration of Free State Libertarians from New Hampshire to SC. After all, when you do away with government controlled schools, you can have all the bible in schools you want, provided you can pay to organize your own school by your own principles. Then again, you could also buy alcohol on Sundays.
Maybe things are way wackier in SC. Maybe "Christians" really are persecuted there, not being able to pray or read a bible or whatnot. People in the town where I grew up spouted the same "persecution by secular humanist schools", but I never saw it. Kids prayed, frequently, on their own time (not disrupting class etc.), read bibles, etc. Our Jewish librarian featured the Bible during "Banned Books Week" (along with Mein Kampf and Lolita).
Even though most (80%) of the school was of the "oppressed evangelical minority" and expressed it freely, other religions were permitted the same individual expression (as opposed to state sponsored expression). A friend of mine explained to his principal (a Sunday school teacher) that he was a Pagan and he wanted the Equinoxes off for religious observances. He brought in some material, talked a bit about what he would be doing (a whole lot of nothing, like any other holiday), and he got the days off. To steal from Crowley, "The Law is for All".
I feel sorry for all those Christians in SC who don't have a First Amendment to allow them practice their religion freely (with a tax-free status) and keeps so many good Christian kids out of churches. No wonder they have to preach to them at school, what with all the restrictions on going to Sunday School at churches. A kid's gotta get his religion from somewhere!
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Date: 2004-06-10 11:40 am (UTC)Maybe things are way wackier in SC. Maybe "Christians" really are persecuted there, not being able to pray or read a bible or whatnot. People in the town where I grew up spouted the same "persecution by secular humanist schools", but I never saw it. Kids prayed, frequently, on their own time (not disrupting class etc.), read bibles, etc. Our Jewish librarian featured the Bible during "Banned Books Week" (along with Mein Kampf and Lolita).
Even though most (80%) of the school was of the "oppressed evangelical minority" and expressed it freely, other religions were permitted the same individual expression (as opposed to state sponsored expression). A friend of mine explained to his principal (a Sunday school teacher) that he was a Pagan and he wanted the Equinoxes off for religious observances. He brought in some material, talked a bit about what he would be doing (a whole lot of nothing, like any other holiday), and he got the days off. To steal from Crowley, "The Law is for All".
I feel sorry for all those Christians in SC who don't have a First Amendment to allow them practice their religion freely (with a tax-free status) and keeps so many good Christian kids out of churches. No wonder they have to preach to them at school, what with all the restrictions on going to Sunday School at churches. A kid's gotta get his religion from somewhere!