From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 13:00:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Will Jews be Forced to Accept Christ in Public Schools?
Message-ID: <199711050439.FAA06121@basement.replay.com>
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Tim May wrote:
> Due to my advanced age, compared to most of you, I was attending elementary
> school in the State of Virginia before the Supreme Court struck down school
> prayer (circa 1962). I vaguely recall a kind of prayer at times, which
> anyone was free to ignore. Obviously a child will feel social pressures to
> conform...but such is life in many ways.

  And then the rest of the children were made to stand at attention
while
the Jews, the Buddhists, the Muslims, et al, performed their own
religious
rituals, right?
 
> The Jew in our class was specifically exempted from school prayers. Seth
> Schrager--I remember his name somehow--was excused from Christian
> activities, like building manger scenes and reenacting Christian parables
> in school plays. Actually, we didn't _want_ any Christkillers in our school
> plays.

  Big news, Tim...non-violent discrimination against a particular 
religious faction is not quite the same as freedom from religious 
persecution.
  i.e. - Not kicking Seth's Christkilling little butt is not the 
equivalent of letting him engage in his religious activities in 
school just as the Christian kids do.

  Still looking for your shoes? Check under the bed...

~JC~