That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
This issue is whether or not our government should be infusing religion into (schools).
Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.
Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.