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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 15:47:39 EDT
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>>You should have control over what they learn, this is exactly why I'm against
>>Planned Parenthood counseling.  I find it ironic that people are more against
>>puplic institutions teaching religion than against private institutions
>>secretly counseling kids on sex and secretely giving out birth control pills,
>>and secret-ly performing abortions.  As you said, "after all they ARE my
>>kids." [RAY FRANK]

> Children are people and not robots.  Their individuality and their minds must
> be respected, not programmed.  Parents can try to "shelter" children all they
> want, but in the end the young adult will make ones own decisions.  I
> personally would want my children exposed to all philosophies, since in life 
> they will encounter all philophies.  I would like them to know something
> about several religions - why hide the fact that some people are religious
> and that the various religions have different practices?  You can't hide
> reality from people forever. ...  Unless you intend to raise your child under
> house arrest, there is nothing you can do to physically stop your child from
> having pre-marital sex.  So instead of being arbitrary and negative,
> it is best to communicate with the teenager, and to voice, most
> of all, that the son or daughter not get involved with someone
> who doesn't treat him/her right.  The concern should be that
> your son or daughter is not hurt or used.  [SELTZER]

Bra-vo!  Tell THAT to someone like Ray!  [SHE JUST DID!]  Oh, yeah...
[I WONDER IF IT HAS ANY EFFECT...]
-- 
"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr