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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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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