Religion for me, but not for thee. Pagan mom challenges Bible giveaway at public school

[TalkingDog]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/18/pagan-mom-challenges-bibles-in-north-carolina-school/?test=latestnews


The Gideons International had delivered several boxes of the sacred books to the school office. The staff allowed interested students to stop by and pick them up.

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According to Strivelli, the principal assured her the school would make available religious texts donated by any group. But when Strivelli showed up at the school with pagan spell books, she was turned away.

"Buncombe County School officials are currently reviewing relevant policies and practices with school board attorneys," the district announced in a written statement. "During this review period, no school in the system will be accepting donations of materials that could be viewed as advocating a particular religion or belief."

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"You can either open your public school up to all religious material, or you can say no religious material," Michael Broyde, a professor and senior fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion said. "You can't say, 'You can distribute religious material, but only from the good mainstream faiths.'"

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Funny how that works, ain't it?

[Neoma]

1. Aren't freethinkers awesome?

[niyad]

2. I just love how the xian reichwing whines about how they are being persecuted, when, in fact, it is

THEY who are doing the persecuting.

quite frankly, I am more than a little bit sick of them. in my local Barnes/Noble, there are two sections of what they call "new age" material--and approximately 16 of the xian stuff, including several sections of xian fiction (not counting the bible

the fear factor always amuses me--are they so insecure in their faith that the mere presence of materials from another faith--or from those of no faith--will destroy it? not much of a faith, then, is it?

[sarcasmo]

3. +1

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. She used the classic subsitution approach

It drives most narrow thinkers nuts since it exposes their sacred cows to ridicule and question.

People don't like it done here either...

[TalkingDog]

5. Tru Dat.

n/t