Faith & Politics and Other Normal Subjects: Double Standard Among America's Elite Educational System?

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Double Standard Among America's Elite Educational System?

"Christian Law Firm: Muslims Benefiting from Double Standard

OneNewsNow.com reports that the chief counsel of a Christian law firm says it is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a double standard when it comes to accommodating religious practices at public schools and universities. While USA Today reports that some public schools are granting Muslims' requests for prayer times, prayer rooms, and ritual footbaths, Richard Thompson, chief counsel for the Thomas More Law Center, says, "The Supreme Court of the United States -- in case after case [communist] the last 50 years -- has forbidden those kinds of activities for Christians."

Thompson says at San Diego's Carver Elementary School officials created an extra recess to accommodate Islamic prayers. And yet, in a different San Diego district, a veteran teacher of 30 years was ordered last May to remove from his classroom walls banners that promoted a 'Judeo-Christian' viewpoint."

Taken from OneNewsNow.com

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“The new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. Thus he writes one book complaining that imperial oppression insults the purity of women, and then he writes another book (about the sex problem) in which he insults it himself. He curses the Sultan because Christian girls lose their virginity, and then curses Mrs. Grundy [1] because they keep it. As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. A man denounces marriage as a lie, and then denounces aristocratic profligates for treating it as a lie. He calls a flag a bauble,[2] and then blames the oppressors of

Poland

Ireland

because they take away that bauble. The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.”

-- Quote from Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, pg.53

[1] A person who is too much concerned with being proper, modest, or righteous.
[2] A trinket, triffle, or fool’s scepter.

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Double Standard Among America's Elite Educational System?

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