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July 06, 2006
Religious bigotry
A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they feared retaliation for filing a lawsuit. The religion (if any) of a second family in the lawsuit is not known, because they're suing as Jane and John Doe; they also fear retaliation. Both families are asking relief from "state-sponsored religion."
To contrast that, I was taking a practice test for citizenship. One of the questions was “why did the pilgrims come to the New World.” The answer, of course was “to escape religious persecution.” It’s sad to know that the most recent of recent immigrants have a better grasp of American History and what it means to be an American than do many residents of America’s First State...
Do I even have to talk about how unconscionable this is? Is it necessary for me to mention that this is the United States of America. These sorts of things are not supposed to happen in this country? I suppose some might call it a step forward that it’s not Protestants and Catholics at each other’s throats. Perhaps that’s the problem: now that American Catholics and Protestants have begun to believe that-- at core-- they are both Christian. Neither group fears that what the State will begin teaching their children will be antithical to their own. In the mean time they’re able to use their combined strength to beet up on the rest of us. Lovely...
Posted by Andrew at July 6, 2006 12:38 PM