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to: Paul Ranson
from: Robert Comer
date: 2004-02-06 11:33:44
subject: Re: Girl Suspended from School for Saying `Hell`

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Well I was joking.

I didn't catch that until I read your message to Ellen in NTHelp and then I
figured it out, sorry.

> I think threatening children with eternal damnation isn't 'freedom of
> religion', it's abuse, and recommending parenting classes would be
> appropriate.

That's fair for you, but it would be just as heinous for parents not to
discuss things like that with their children if they are believers.

> But excluding children from school for what they say? Madness and surely
> unconstitutional. What happened to education?

That I agree with you 100%.

- Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:4023bff8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Well I was joking.
>
> But...
>
> I think threatening children with eternal damnation isn't 'freedom of
> religion', it's abuse, and recommending parenting classes would be
> appropriate.
>
> But excluding children from school for what they say? Madness and surely
> unconstitutional. What happened to education?
>
> Paul
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:4023b332{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > I'd investigate the parents of the girl for abuse. Fancy encouraging
an
> > > obviously impressionable child to believe such nonsense...
> >
> > Freedom of religion.
> >
> > - Bob Comer 
>
>

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