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in response to Ronan’s comment; but then in your suggested scenario when then the boy’s return to school and see the blank walls, what is it in their text books that the school is showing, is it Voltaire, Darwin, religious tolerance, Christianity, Islam, Judaism? I mean is it minority rule or majority rule? This issue is of immense importance here in USA I feel. I really appreciate this dialog on this matter in a reasonable tone and feel what professor Weiler discussed is something that I wish more of the professors and educators, citizens and politicians would revisit more throughly in the like manner.

Here Christians can not have these religious freedoms in all public schools and yet what is taught as fact is Darwinism but not creationism, they have it in the books, in the curriculum, they don’t need it on the walls. It moved from freedom OF religion and majority rules to freedom FROM religion minority rules in the public sector here.

Which is not equality, it is giving validity and more bearing to one view point than the other. For one’s view should be equal here in the US and thus the sum total of the mass should be respected and understood, however not that it alienates anyones freedoms. Yet having it that the minority rule superseeds the majority does not honor the rights of the individual in the majority either.

If your religion is of a minority in our current culture, then you are protected from being kept from honoring your religious convictions. Which is good but when it does not work that way for the peoples whos religious freedoms fall on the side of the majority your are not given this liberty because it some how now turns to become oppressive to the minority. Only that the case really is that the majority is whom being repressed at this point. And this is not true and equal. This is out of balance and false.

I only write this from an Americans view in response to a nice surprise that I can read this blog and see what others are facing as well. I pray for peace about these issues of tolerance and true justice and for us to have creative loving solutions with patient and thoughtful debate to cultivate the most loving and logical outcomes to these and other social differences.