At 6:01 PM -0700 11/4/97, Lizard wrote:
At 07:39 PM 11/4/97 -0500, Jodi Hoffman wrote:
You're a bright one, aren't you? Not that I feel I owe anyone an explanation, but since you took the time and trouble to write so damn much..... CIN donated the webspace. Another Christian organization arranged for someone to build the website and, well, here I am. Aside from the fact that I didn't want to have to pay for _anything_, I think that was very generous of them, don't you?
So, allying yourself with people who would gladly force *your* childen to pray to *their* God doesn't bother you in the least. Fascinating.
There is no way any proposed laws will force Jewish kids to pray in certain forms. (I say this not as a defender of the Christian Right, but in the interests of truth.) Due to my advanced age, compared to most of you, I was attending elementary school in the State of Virginia before the Supreme Court struck down school prayer (circa 1962). I vaguely recall a kind of prayer at times, which anyone was free to ignore. Obviously a child will feel social pressures to conform...but such is life in many ways. The Jew in our class was specifically exempted from school prayers. Seth Schrager--I remember his name somehow--was excused from Christian activities, like building manger scenes and reenacting Christian parables in school plays. Actually, we didn't _want_ any Christkillers in our school plays. Personally, I'd rather see school vouchers, or, even better, a complete withdrawal of public funding for schools. Let the Zoroastrians send their kids to whatever school they like...and let them pay the freight. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."