Tax Support for Schools

[Don Roberts]

This really doesn't belong on the list...
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:25:26 -0800 David Cruz <dcruz at LAW.USC.EDU> writes:
>On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Don Roberts wrote:
>
>> [snip] so-called secular schools, and I've been
>> on the local campuses and seen it, teach religion that I object to.
>They
>> teach my kids to worship demons at halloween, elves at Christmas and
>> secularism the rest of the time.  [snip]
>
>The public schools today in your part of Orange County, CA must be

Sorry, Diamond Bar is in Los Angeles County.

>rather
>different from those attended (for the most part--I attended a
>prestigious
>but academically non-superior Catholic high school my freshman year)
>by
>myself and my siblings in Yorba Linda, Placentia, and Anaheim.  Could
>you
>please elaborate on how it is that they teach your kids to _WORSHIP_
>demons and elves?
>
>-David Cruz, USC Law (Cal.)
>
They don't teach my kids that because my kids go to non-secular schools.
Be that as it may, both my own experience, and during my more recent
visits to campus, I find the kids being required to participate in
Halloween rituals like dressing up as witches and participating in greed
based rituals like exchanging candy, which the courts, when applied to
children being required to participate in a similar manner to a Christian
activity such as Easter, have already defined as teaching them to
practice religion.  Since Halloween rituals are based on Satan worship,
then, by the case law, this comes out to teaching my kids to worship
demons.  Secular Christmas celebrations work out the same way.

You are quite free to differ, but then, differing opinions is what the
worlds about, eh?  I told you this was quite parochial of me.

Don Roberts