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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
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Subject: Re: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 09:08:52 EDT
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In article <4217@alice.UUCP> jj@alice.UUCP writes:
>Mr. Samuelson,
>	In your haste to contradict all that Rosen says and/or
>stands for, you ignore, overlook, or deliberately omit one
>important, binding, and compelling point:
>	
>	Individuals throughout the country, who profess to be
>of the same religion and beliefs as you, and who claim that their
>mission in life is the promotion of "Christian Ethics and Morals",
>are using the Hatch act (the new one) to harrass science, math,
>physics, and biology teachers.
>
A few weeks ago, I caught the tail end of a news broadcast which told of
some fundamentalist group using the Hatch Act against a high-school Chemistry
teacher... apparantly they contend that teaching about elements not
specifically mentioned in the Bible constitutes "secular humanism".  (Just
one look at the so-called "Periodic Table" should convince you of that -
all those symbols and numbers *must* be Satanic!  After all, it *was* invented
by a godless Commie!)

If I were a Math teacher, I'd watch out... after all, the Bible implies that
pi = 3, and teaching otherwise is obviously "secular humanism".

Incidentally, howcum this discussion has progressed as far as it has without
anyone mentioning Galileo?

AWR