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Comments on teaching evolution, comparing Episcopal dissidents to child abusers, and more.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 2/22/2008 09:17AM

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"I'd probably ideally like to keep it all out of the classroom. If it's going to create this much controversy, how important is it?"
Peggy O'Shea, member of Pinellas County (Fla.) School Board, on evolution and intelligent design.
(Source: St. Petersburg Times)

"In a sense it's related to the old ecclesiastical behavior toward child abuse [when priests looked the other way]. Bad behavior must be confronted."
Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, on why the church is suing congregations that leave the national denomination.
(Source: Religion News Service)

"Secular morality always runs the risk of wearing itself out or changing into fanaticism when it isn't backed up by hope that aspires to the infinite."
Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, challenging his country's views on secularism and church-state relations.
(Source: Brussels Journal)

"They that believe shall mount up with wings as eagles."
A class motto deleted from graduation announcements at McKenzie High School (mascot: The Eagles) in Blue River, Oregon, because it was too close to Isaiah 40:31. The motto, drawn from a classmate's funeral, was replaced with "Nothing we do changes the past; everything we do changes the future."
(Source: The Register-Guard)

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Walt Brouwer, DMin

Posted: February 22, 2008 2:42 PM


Bishop Schori's lawsuits against dissenting Episcopal congregations is reflective of a culture that makes believers and unbelievers rail against institutionalized religion, and is in clear violation of Paul's injuction in 1 Corinthians 6:1ff. This is about power, not gospel.

Raymond Takashi Swenson

Posted: February 22, 2008 2:03 PM

How does someone get a seat on a schoolboard who believes that the more public interest there is in a topic, the less deserving it is of being part of the school curriculum? I guess this is the explanation for why so much of what is taught in schools is irrelevant to real life, uninteresting and unmotivating: The school administrators don't want to be forced to think about it. Seriously, though, this reluctance to have public schools get involved with any idea on which total consensus is lacking is a natural outcome of the readiness to litigate by the ACLU and others, who assert that taxpayer financed school teachers should not say anything that cannot be understood as an official endorsement by government of "The Truth". Their view is that students are there to be indoctrinated in official Truth, NOT to learn to respect the diversity of opinion in the real world and make their own decisions. Is there any wonder why the home schooling movement is exploding in popularity?

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