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Originally Posted by filtherton
You know that that's not how the constitution is interpreted.
I think something like this sets a precedent than is very likely to come back and bite the various parts of christianity that favor it in the ass. If we can establish a tory bible class, who's to say that we also can't establish a koran class, or a class on the church of satan. Raise your hand if you think that the people over at the National Council on Bible Curriculum would all have self-righteous hissy fits if such a thing were to occur. No doubt they would fail to see their own role in the matter.
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You're a little late. The University of North Carolina already started that shit.
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I would take the opponents of the Bible class more seriously if they had been up in arms about the Koran requirement. I'm not surprised at the lack of outcry, though. Christian-bashing seems to be politically correct these days.
And yes, both should be elective.