So you live in the heart of the Southern Bible Belt. Your neighbors have elected an anti-evolution teaching skool bored. You don’t have the money to afford adequate private education for your children. What do you do?Or you live in an urban area with the now usual violence in the public schools and once again you can’t afford private schooling. What do you do?A California ruling says you can’t homeschool unless you are a certified educator. Great news for the teacher unions and real bad news for the Dobson Focus on the Family. Read the link to the title to this posting. Also, Ask Rockridge is discussing this situation. Can a progressive support homeschooling?Got Children? Discuss…..Peter Nuhn
4-F
If you’re talking about the Constitution… it doesn’t…
It mentions Sunday… says nothing about the “Christian Sabbath”…
Of course if the founders really wanted to “honor the Sabbath”… they would have explicitly written that into the Constitution…
They didn’t…
4-F strikes out again…
I love how Phreeliar makes unsubstantiated claims and does absolutely nothing in the way of providing evidence to back them up.
Funny stuff.
On a more disturbing note…
It’s a bit frightening when he openly lies about the contents of a document for which he is easily shown to be misrepresenting (i.e., the words God, Gods or Creator in the Constitution) and then continues to lie about it.
There’s something wrong psychologically with an individual who does that.
DVan,
Perhaps 4-F hasn’t had the 9th Commandment of his chosen faith tradition read to him.
Here, I’ll make it easy…who’s the Christian Creator…?
an imaginary concept that some of the religiously insane confuse with the voices in their heads.
I said it before phreedy, the fact that the constitution hasn’t been implemented perfectly doesn’t change it’s nature.
the constitution cannot enforce itself, it depends on the support of the judiciary and on the support of citizens who must challenge laws before they are reviewed on a constitutional basis. we have had many grassroots revivals in this country, and secularism has been unpopular throughout american history. its not a suprise to me that my religious countrymen havn’t lept at every chance to enforce the constitutions limits. NEVERTHELESS, it is the secular nature of the constitution which allowed those revivals to take place.
the president gets a day off, so what? I already provided a link explaining that “sunday laws” have been determined to serve the valid secular purpose of establishing a common day of rest. sunday was the traditional choice, and I don’t see any reason they should change it just to spite christians.
if, on the other hand, the consitution named a specific day of WORSHIP for the president, or if chrisianity was named among the other requirements for running for office, I would entertain the notion that this was not meant to be a secular nation.
anyway, I’m done. I’ve backed myself up twice as much as you have and you havn’t responded to any of my points. I’m through trying to educate you.
go on, have the last word. I know you want it.
Rusty,
Very possible.
So, our rights come from a creator because it says so in the Declaration of Independence. Who wrote the Declaration?
A man.
Our rights were created by the people. Just like your creator.
flying weasel – you have backed up your arguments infinitely more than phreakshow. Because he has never backed up anything he has said here.