I have finally and reluctantly concluded you are as honest man saying what your version of reality is and that you are so deep into that right wingnut pit, you are beyond any effort to make you look at reality. I feel sorry for you.

Formal religious activities, teachings and rituals are best left to their places of worship and/or private homes. That doesn’t mean that a christian child can’t wear a cross or silently pray before they eat lunch or take a test. It doesn’t mean that a muslim girl must remove her headscarf.

In reality, all of this claptrap about religion and schools is only really concerned with one religion’s “rights”- christianity. Christianity does NOT define the USA whether you like it or not. Christianity isn’t even the most prolific religion in the world- Islam is.

I just want my state and country to restore our public schools to the great EDUCATORS that they no longer are. Our kids are lagging behind globally and that is tragic. Education should be a critical discussion of how WELL and COMPREHENSIVELY we educate our children and prepare them to take their place in our country’s history. We are NOT doing a great job of it and all we can talk about is prayer in school?! We need more reading, writing and -like Bill Clinton- arithmatic!!! Our kids deserve the best and they are getting a bunch of smoke and mirrors from religion.

And before you call me some heretical demon of Satan…I’m a christian. I love God. My husband, myself and the church were in charge of helping to shape our children’s ethics, morals and values- NOT public school.

Why does someone else being gay bother you so much? Exactly HOW do gay families “punish” people? Your church (if you even go to church) isn’t compelled by any government agency to accept any homosexual. Homosexuals do exactly what any other couple does- what any other family does. The only thing they ask for is to NOT be discriminated against.

Did you know that migrant farm workers are hired by American farmers? They’re aren’t being forced to hire illegal aliens- they do it because most Americans think they’re too good for that kind of “low class work.”
And when was the last time you saw a white guy standing around Lowes or Home Depot looking for work?? NEVER. You’ll find white guys hanging around busy intersections, downtown city streets and freeway off ramps with signs begging for handouts. I drive by my neighborhood Lowes every day and see hispanic men just waiting for American businessmen and homeowners just waiting to give them a day of work for money- it’s called EARNING a living.

People who are poor, disadvantaged and disabled exist in every single society on earth. As long as man has walked earth, there are those who hold greater and less stations in life. With great power and wealth comes equal responsibility. For those who are given much, much is expected. The greatness of any nation is how they treat their most vulnerable populations.

If you don’t gay people, don’t associate with them (they wouldn’t want to associate with you either). If you don’t like illegal aliens, don’t give them a job (if you happen to have the power to do that, which I doubt.). If you don’t like poor people, don’t be one (and pay your fair share of taxes, ass!)

Besides slavery was originally legal and then it’s legality was restricted to certain states, which continued to embrace the practice until the Civil War. Jim Crow was, of course the result of different judicial decisions based as an overall concept on segregation; none of which relates to religious teachings, except in the case of the DRC and Apartheid (which isn’t even American.

Is the implication that one is to take from your upper-cased response that you equate religious rights to slavery? Or conversely that the atheistic, anti-religious tenor of current union-dominated primary education can be equated to slavery?