Separation of Church and State

[The_Q]

Alain, just postign "I agree with _________ entirely" or something that resembles such a post without valid points to add to it. The Critical Thinking board is not for "I agree," it is for "This is what I think and why." It is for discussion. If you will not discuss, don't post.

Now, back onto the topic. I honestly believe that there needs to be a separation of church and state for a proper democracy, or in our case a democratic-republic, to succeed. There still needs to be such a separation. For instance, recently a child brought a bunch of pencils to school in order to give them in the gift exchange his school was hosting. The pencils had the words "Jesus loves you" on them. They were taken away. That is not separation of church and state but rather a state's interference with the church. Because there are other religions and minorities who oppose the evangelism in public schools the government decides to supress the evangelism. This is not only just inches from a violation of first ammendment rights that the U.S. gives me but it is also violates one of the principles our founding fathers agreed upon (even if the fathers were greedy white scrooges).

What kind of a tolerant society keeps a people from making certain personal choices (even homosexuality)? The school board taking up the pencils is ruling in the minority's favor because if they don't they'll end up with a lawsuit. Our problem is not intolerance from the majority but the intolerance from the minorities If minorities, such as the Muslim family who took caused the pencils to be taken, were to be more tolerant we would not run into these religious fiascos quite as often. Not only would a higher tolerance end up saving many people socially but it is an economically wise decision. To be more tolerant means that more business between people can be made.

I'd go into a rant about homosexuality and all sorts of discrimination but that's thread hijacking, isn't it torres?

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