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New site? Maybe some day. Username: SPAM Filter: re-type this (values are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E, or F) Message: UBB enabled. HTML disabled Spam Filtering enabledIcons: (click image to insert) Show All - pop Select Color orange orange-red crimson red firebrick dark red green limegreen teal silver sea-green deeppink tomato coral purple indigo burlywood sandy brown sienna chocolate FONTXXSmallXSmallSmallMediumLargeXLXXL :DG: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Char† ‡ ‰ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ‾ ← ↑ → ↓ ™ – —   ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ­ ® ¯ ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿ À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ b i u  add: url  image  video(?) : post by Yeti at 2012-01-30 13:34:39 it all boils down to one fact. religion, references to religion, prayer, nostalgic vaguely religious sayings, all have no place within a public school. i took an English course in high school and part of it was "the Bible Through Literature", and in my uneducated 18 year old ways, i fought against it based on this. the teacher made a good point to me about it, they weren't promoting it, they weren't displaying it for all to see, it was a class studying the impact of the Bible through historical and literary analysis. i had to elect the course, and the course outline was available at enrollment. it was a public school, but it wasn't on display, and ultimately the course further proved to me why i am against religion, but it was fascinating to study it from an objective perspective. that is vastly different than a posting in a traffic artery essentially blessing the school and all within it. again, it doesn't specify a religion, but it specifies a deity. and let's not dance around the fact that "heavenly father" is a direct reference to Abrahamic religion, and i don't mean Islam. but even then, subjective perception isn't a basis for concrete litigation. this is larger than that, "that" being the blessing of a school under religion, no matter how vague it is. again, as lame as anonymous trolling is, Samefag brought a good counter argument, and lent a lot to this discussion. it could have been a bit more intelligent by avoiding the name-calling, but still, a good argument is a good argument.

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