Upstairs at Caroline
Church and State Must Be Separated
RECEIVED Fri., Feb. 3, 2006
Dear Kinky and all of his followers,
I fought for years to keep a fundamentalist church from invading the schools and forcing their narrow-minded fundamentalist views on the children of Wimberley. State-sponsored prayer does not need to be in the public school system. Children are able to hold prayer groups, study the Bible as literature, have after-school religious functions, and pray in the schools now, as long as they do not force other children to participate or as long as the staff or the administration of the school do not take part. What is wrong with religion being in the churches, synagogues, ashrams, temples, or the home? Why do you insist on putting it back into the public school system where religious zealots in charge of educating all the children, (no matter what those children's religion or nonreligion is), can force-feed their fundamentalist views to impressionable children.
I would so much like to see a change here in Texas. I would so much like to vote for an independent. I care about a lot of the same things you do, but I cannot vote for someone who would breach the separation of church and state. It's wrong. Please think more about this issue and what the ramifications of such an action would be.
I fought for years to keep a fundamentalist church from invading the schools and forcing their narrow-minded fundamentalist views on the children of Wimberley. State-sponsored prayer does not need to be in the public school system. Children are able to hold prayer groups, study the Bible as literature, have after-school religious functions, and pray in the schools now, as long as they do not force other children to participate or as long as the staff or the administration of the school do not take part. What is wrong with religion being in the churches, synagogues, ashrams, temples, or the home? Why do you insist on putting it back into the public school system where religious zealots in charge of educating all the children, (no matter what those children's religion or nonreligion is), can force-feed their fundamentalist views to impressionable children.
I would so much like to see a change here in Texas. I would so much like to vote for an independent. I care about a lot of the same things you do, but I cannot vote for someone who would breach the separation of church and state. It's wrong. Please think more about this issue and what the ramifications of such an action would be.
Thank you,
Kitty Page
Kitty Page
P.S. p.s. Loved the Jan. 27 cover ["The New Texas Family Planning," News, Jan. 27]: It so points to exactly what I fear – religion being forced into our lives and between our legs!