Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!ittatc!bunker!garys From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools. Message-ID: <938@bunker.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 11:56:13 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.938 Posted: Fri Aug 16 11:56:13 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 03:24:31 EDT References: <4141@alice.UUCP> Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 19 Xref: linus net.politics:9834 net.religion:7003 Regarding the statute to ban the teaching of "Secular Humanism" in schools which receive federal money: I found it quite ironic (but then, I have been seeing irony a lot recently). Didn't the Supreme Court recognize Secular Humanism as a religion not too long ago? And didn't the same Court find that the Establishment clause prohibited federal funded schools from teaching religion (or was it just Christianity)? And wasn't that ruling the result of the efforts of the Secular Humanists? But if my perceptions are correct, then there is no need to pass a new law; the teaching of Secular Humanism should already be illegal. In either case, it would be quite consistent to forbid Secular Humanism in public schools. Gary Samuelson