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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:31:06 EST
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- From: oliver@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
- Subject: Re: Our Christian nation
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- Matt's comment about our having a de facto Christian nation reminds me
- of a conflict that occurred in France not too many months ago
- when the French Muslims began to demand that their daughters
- be allowed to wear traditional dress to school and to be excused
- from subjects involving biology.
-
- I wondered at the time if such a movement were to spread to the U.S.
- if our leaders would wrap themselves in a cloak of securalism and
- begin to wax eloquently about the importance of observing
- the separation of church and state. My darker impulses make
- me want to encourage our Muslims to demand that their children
- be allowed to say their daily prayers on the school playgrounds.
- (except for all the latent bigotry such action would unleash --
- the issue would probably get lost in the melee)
-
- I must add that there are many religious people who are just
- as incensed at the hypocrisy of the separation issue as am
- I. Bill Moyers touched on it several years ago in a program
- about the Southern Baptist Convention being taken over by
- the fundamentalists.
-
- Oliver
-