Hi all, I was reading this article and I must say that I find the author to be rather biased and strongly disagree with some of the things he said, for example -Quote- To acknowledge that Tempest Smith's classmates were exerting cruel psychological torture on the young woman with the hymns their church had taught them would be to indict not only the school children, but the hymns as well. To make this tragic event public knowledge would be to put a mirror to the face of the majority, forcing them to see the intolerance in their own eyes, crumbling their arguments that it no longer exists. -Unquote- The use of hymns to impose psychological tramour on someone else cannot indict the hymns themselves, that is total and utter bullshit, is that not the same as saying that when someone uses a steak knife to stab someone, the person who did the stabbing is responsible as well as the knife? Total utter crap. Secondly: -Quote- Cassie Bernall was not persecuted because of her beliefs, she was gunned down at random by madmen. Tempest Smith was driven to suicide by the constant harassment from her peers, who were singling her out specifically for her religion. The former's death was a senseless act of violence, the latter's the result of hate. -Unquote- They claim persecution due to belief, but at the same time Ive been around wiccans, and I would be very very interested to know just how much pushing of her beliefs she did on other people, because Ive heard the ridicule of Christians that come out of wiccan mouths. I dont agree with any form of religious persecution, and I believe that a person should be able to believe what they want, and express it how they want, providing that they dont push it on other people, hence, if this story is infact true, the kids that pushed her to suicide were wrong, but Im interested to hear what she did to incite this, because I seriously doubt kids singing hymns at her without either provocation from her or alternatively pushing from their teachers/parents. Anyway, I just thought I would give my comments Later Andrew -----Original Message----- From: owner-cypherpunks@minder.net [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@minder.net]On Behalf Of Jim Choate Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 3:27 PM To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com; hell@EINSTEIN.ssz.com Subject: kuro5hin.org || 12 Year Old Girl Commits Suicide After Christian Taunts. http://www.Kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/3/15/124222/252 -- ____________________________________________________________________ If the law is based on precedence, why is the Constitution not the final precedence since it's the primary authority? The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------