Public schools should not allow religious proselytizing
Hemant Mehta wrote about a school district that will now be supporting the distribution of Satanic literature to high school students because of their ill-advised decision to allow Christian literature. Why are school boards populated by morons? Why do school boards believe that religious proselytizing is part of their mission to educate students about reality? How can they justify excluding opposing religious viewpoints?
Here is the email I sent this particular school board today:
Subject: stop the distribution of religious material to students
From: Kurtis Rader krader@skepticism.us
To: christine.moore1@ocps.net, nancy.robbinson@ocps.net,
William.Sublette@ocps.net, kathleen.gordon@ocps.net, joie.cadle@ocps.net,
pamela.gould@ocps.net, rick.roach@ocps.net, daryl.flynn@ocps.net,
Why are you allowing religious groups to proselytize to students? I don’t care what religion is being promoted. Public schools should not be giving their imprimatur to a specific religious viewpoint. Furthermore, doing so is clearly unconstitutional. If you believe otherwise please justify why Islam, Buddhism or any of the thousands of other religions should not be be promoted by your schools.