Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mcnc.mcnc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!akgua!mcnc!bch From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: Secular humanism banned in schools that receive Federal aid! Message-ID: <710@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 22:10:38 EDT Article-I.D.: mcnc.710 Posted: Mon Aug 12 22:10:38 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 22:05:18 EDT References: <4121@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service Lines: 27 Xref: linus net.politics:9756 net.religion:6970 In article <4121@alice.UUCP> jj@alice.UUCP writes: > >An news story today reports that Orin Hatch, R-Utah, managed to push >through a rider to an educational bill a while ago that required schools >who receive educational funds from the US Government to "not teach >any subject matter of secular humanism". The first problem is going to be to define the unique subject matter of secular humanism (or is that secular dialectical humanism.) This could be in the courts for a while.... >Isaac Asimov and others in a NY group whose title includes >"secular humanism" have filed suit in federal court, charging >an abridgement of the first amendment. I agree, a strange response. I'm still not sure what secular humanists preach. They tell me I are one, but that doesn't help... > >TEDDY BEARS MAY BECOME EXTINCT! HELP AN ENDANGERED SPECIES! > Only if it doesn't abridge their first amendment rights... -- Byron C. Howes ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch