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From: gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: secular humanism banned in schools
Message-ID: <1356@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 12:25:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 12:25:50 1985
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In article <438@decwrl.UUCP> bottom@katadn.DEC writes:
>Anyone who proposes that "christians" have more influence on what is 
>taught in our schools should remember that the Catholics (until the mid 
>70's) used to beat left handed children and force them to write right 
>handed.

BULLSHIT.  I was going to Catholic schools then, and none of my left-handed 
peers were being beaten for it.  Maybe teachers named Bottom, or red-headed
teachers in Maine, or some other identifiable group were doing such things,
but to say that all people in a given religion, or teaching in the schools 
of a given religion were doing it is, in technical terms, BULLSHIT.

>		           They are also two good examples of why these 
>people should be prevented from exercising their influence on the 
>educational process to the exclusion of other more level headed 
>approaches.

And your anecdotal reasoning is a good example of why YOU "should be
prevented ... "

Can you say "prejudice".  I thought you could.

FROM:   Brian G. Gordon, CAE Systems Division of Tektronix, Inc.
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