Originally posted by wfahber

It sounds like a valid question to me. I see absolutely nothing in the first amendment, or anywhere else in the United States constitution, prohibiting public schools from promoting religious ideas, be they Christian, Jewish, Islam, or any other.

I think the key word here is promoting...

In my humanities and history classes at my public high school, we did discuss these ideas, but we did not directly promote belief in them.

dlw

Originally posted by The Laughing Man

LW, why do you hypocritically whine for your fellow Christians to respect you when you don't give respect back to them?

To say someone has asked a stupid question does not imply that they are stupid.

But in retrospect, I probably could have framed my post better. Thankyou for exhorting me to be more careful and respectful with my language, Jinx.

dlw

I guess the Supreme Court should rule against Jefferson and Madison. Go here.

Originally posted by OneFollowingHim

I guess the Supreme Court should rule against Jefferson and Madison. Go here.

Of course you think so. You are mistaken in one tiny matter however, it would NOT be your version of Christianity that won out. It does not matter one iota which branch would win out, all the others would protest. To the Detriment of the Union. Which Jefferson and Madison et al seemed to have worked out a long time ago.


Mayhap these people you are quoting should think about what would happen if the Mormons got a majority, The Catholics, The whosoever. It matters not. Their version would be the one that counted in the US.