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    0 starsbaorao | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 12 2008 | news, law, religion
    The Edmond Sun, Edmond, OK - Bill promotes school religion at expense of education

    You might find this interesting.

    Quoted: HB 2211 is identical to bills widely introduced into state legislatures across the nation, where they have met various fates. Texas’s Legislature passed it, and Texas is experiencing serious problems as a result...

    So what does it do exactly?

    Quoted: The bill requires public schools to guarantee students the right to express their religious viewpoints in a public forum, in class, in homework and in other ways without being penalized. If a student’s religious beliefs were in conflict with scientific theory, and the student chose to express those beliefs rather than explain the theory in response to an exam question, the student’s incorrect response would be deemed satisfactory, according to this bill. The school would be required to reward the student with a good grade, or be considered in violation of the law. Even simple, factual information such as the age of the earth (4.65 billion years) would be subject to the student’s belief, and if the student answered 6,000 years based on his or her religious belief, the school would have to credit it as correct...

    Anything else? (rephrased for clarity)

    Quoted: If a student chooses to take the opportunity to speak at a school-sanctioned assembly and decides to tell the audience they must accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior or go to hell, then that student would have a right to do so, according to this bill. Especially, if the student held a position of honor and authority (class officer, team captain), and was speaking in his or her official capacity.

    So how is this being handled in the aforementioned states that have already enacted this legislation?

    Quoted: The consequence of the bill will be to create havoc and promote discord in the public schools. That’s already happening in Texas, where the bill has been law for several months. Denton, Texas Independent School District, responding to the law, has decreed that no students may ever speak in assembly, to graduation, to the crowd at an athletic event or in other group function. As reported in The Denton Record Chronicle Sept. 1, the superintendent there said if no students are ever allowed to speak, then there will be no discrimination and no basis for lawsuits.

    Brilliant.

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    • ms.kruse - Mar 12 2008

      Why do people suddenly think the separation of church and state no longer applies to them in this country? If you understand only one premise of the idea of America it should be this. I love how Evangelicals twist the founding fathers' words as it suits them -- including totally ignoring separation of church and state.

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