Re: Constitutional amendment

From: Eliyahu Rooff (lrooff_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:08:15 -0700

"Judity01" <judity01@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041029084805.22494.00001586@mb-m06.aol.com...
> ((Abortion, flag burning,
> marriage, etc., they always want to restrict someone's else's conduct
or
> actions to comply with the beliefs of the person proposing the
> amendment ))
>
> What I heard on CNN this morning has nothing to do with amendments but
with
> restricting holiday conduct based on religion.
>
> Did you know that some schools want to cancel Halloween celebrations
because it
> might offend witches? Are these the same people who don't want prayer
in
> schools? Do schools still allow Christmas parties or the exchange in
class of
> handmade cards on Easter or May Day, which originated as a pagan
holiday?
>
While for many of us, school Xmas parties and concerts were standard
fare, the fact still remains that it's effectively asking the school to
observe a religious celebration. How would you feel about schools
including observance of Yom Kippur as a class event, with its mandatory
fasting and recitations of sins committed over the past year? (Note that
I've used YK as an example, and not Hanukkah. Yom Kippur is the most
important day on the Jewish calendar, while Hanukkah is a relatively
minor one despite it's proximity to Xmas.) If your child were attending
school in a neighborhood with a Jewish majority -- or an Islamic one --
would you find it acceptable for the school to have institutionalized
celebrations or observances of Jewish or Islamic holidays instead of
Christian ones?

School-sponsored celebration of anyone's religious beliefs, including my
own, should be off-limits.

Eliyahu

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