Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moral shock of the exhibit may be its political repercussions. Here New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has raised a stink of his own. The mayor cut the museums municipal funding of $7 million annually, citing his belief that public funding should not subsidize the establishment or desecration of religion...
Instead of talking about the troubling prevalence of religion on school grounds in clear defiance of the constitutional separation of church and state, we have been reduced to debating the benefits of bestowing the title of "martyr" upon Littleton victim Cassie Bernall. In fact, the so-called martyrdom of Cassie Bernall is emblematic of the problems with the current debate surrounding religion in the schools...
...book itself has spawned Christian youth movements nationwide in response to the supposed attack on religion in public schools. The common supposition is that if Klebold and Harris could only have been as pious and God-fearing as Cassie, or at least had been pressured to be so in their schools, their homicidal tendencies would have been replaced by religious fervor. If Cassie were not killed for her belief in God, the lesson is entirely changed...
...advance of religion in the schools is a silent march, much like a termite invasion that slowly and secretly munches through the walls and floors until the whole building collapses in a heap to everyone's surprise and dismay...
...then again, ignorance seems to be the goal of this silent storm sweeping the nation. First they want us to think that religion is under attack using the fallacious example of Cassie Bernall, then they want us to think that creationism is a legitimate alternative to evolution in science classrooms, and finally they want us to teach our kids that the only way to prevent pregnancy is not to have sex. This leaves American youth in Kansas ill-prepared to deal with a university education, in Texas ill-prepared to deal with sex, and everywhere convinced that their elders...