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re: Texas AG sued to keep a Bible quote in school. Now he’s troubled by Muslim prayers.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:56 am to RedRifle
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:56 am to RedRifle
I haven't read the comments but my attitude on this has always been the same.
I don't care at all if a teacher expresses their religion. I don't care at all if students do. I don't even care if a student who wins an award talks about their religion during their speech.
All of that is free exercise to me and the constitution guarantees free exercise.
So, the students being allowed to go use a room to knock out their prayer? Meh. No big deal to me.
This seems to be another one of those things where the primary reason there's a problem is because we have gotten so fricking bad at distinguishing between ALLOWING something and SUPPORTING something.
And, people have totally fricked up "tolerance" into meaning "I shouldn't have to see shite I don't like"........which is really the fricking precise opposite of tolerance.
I don't care at all if a teacher expresses their religion. I don't care at all if students do. I don't even care if a student who wins an award talks about their religion during their speech.
All of that is free exercise to me and the constitution guarantees free exercise.
So, the students being allowed to go use a room to knock out their prayer? Meh. No big deal to me.
This seems to be another one of those things where the primary reason there's a problem is because we have gotten so fricking bad at distinguishing between ALLOWING something and SUPPORTING something.
And, people have totally fricked up "tolerance" into meaning "I shouldn't have to see shite I don't like"........which is really the fricking precise opposite of tolerance.
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Posted on 3/20/17 at 8:28 am to ShortyRob
quote:Well said.
This seems to be another one of those things where the primary reason there's a problem is because we have gotten so fricking bad at distinguishing between ALLOWING something and SUPPORTING something.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 9:33 am to ShortyRob
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"I shouldn't have to see shite I don't like"
No. This is not the issue, or at least it shouldn't be for anyone with any amount of intelligence. I'm certainly not offended because people want to believe something that I don't believe.
There are reasons we have to do things like this. One of those is because there are people who would take the opportunity to indoc students into their personal beliefs. That can never be allowed to happen in our public schools. Ever. I don't care if people don't like it, and I don't care how they perceive it. That isn't "freedom of expression" and it isn't protected by anything, especially the Constitution.
Posted on 3/20/17 at 11:29 am to ShortyRob
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people have totally fricked up "tolerance" into meaning "I shouldn't have to see shite I don't like"........which is really the fricking precise opposite of tolerance.
I rarely agree with you, but you are dead right about this. Whoever dreamed up this fricked up notion of a right not to be offended needs to "intolerated".
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