Teaching GOD to School Kids

Doing What's Right

Maybe it is just me, but you know, I wonder if people are really this clued out?

Take Texas, where a school district has an ‘elective’ course in the public schools on religion. It uses the Bible for the text, and now the ACLU and another group are suing the school district, to have the course removed because of inaccuracies in the course, and that it violates some parent’s religious liberty. I assume that means freedom to worship as they please?

(Dallas, Texas)  Two advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit against a West Texas school district on behalf of eight parents who say a Bible course violates their religious liberty. (see Story)

While I am on the fence in regards to having such classes available in Public Schools, the key here is that these are an ELECTIVE class. In short, not mandatory, the students have to sign up for it, least I would assume so. So if these parents disagree with the class, why are they letting their kids sign up? It really is that simple in my mind.

elective
adjective
1.	subject to popular election; “elective official” [ant: appointed]
2.	not compulsory; “elective surgery”; “an elective course of study”
noun
1.	a course that the student can select from among alternatives [syn: elective course]

(source)

Now a public school is faced with legal expenses, because why? Some parents think the course is in error? Gee, like that’s new? I mean depending on the sect of whatever religion, Judaism, Christianity, Muslim, you are going to have one disagreeing with the other’s interpretation. That seems to be a way of life in religious circles. I mean hell, the Pope disagrees with all other forms of Christianity, does that mean we should all sue the Catholic Church for having a ‘different opinion‘?

I think that in all honesty, things are going too far. The religious right have bashed Gays for eons now it seems, so where are the lawsuits against them ACLU? I would think that on matters relating to basic civil rights, as covered by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be more of an issue, than whether one church believes one thing, that another doesn’t. The course in the schools is an option. It isn’t mandatory, so what is so wrong here? Maybe what these parents should do, is offer their own classes, in fact all other religions should. Then the kids can find out just how fucked up religion is, when in the hands of man.

With over 20 million children unable to access health care and children growing more illiterate, shouldn’t money be spent on those issues, instead of lawsuits about an elective school course? And how in the hell does an elective course stomp on anyone’s religious freedom? Because it doesn’t agree?

Isn’t that called Democracy? 

I don’t know anymore. Seems that we are all so busy condemning the other guy, we have forgotten, that it is the very differences between us all, that makes us a society, a nation. It is what leads to great inventions, discoveries, and isn’t that what we want to achieve? To grow, not stagnate?

Seriously, isn’t it time we stopped hitting each other over the head because we are different, and Celebrate those Differences?

Ian @ May 28, 2007