My point is more that as a parent I shouldn’t be forced to pay for an education i wouldn’t give my children.
Secular humanism not being a religion, does have a set of beliefs. It would seem unconstitutional if someone had to pay a teacher to teach my kids the Bible, or the Quran, and many things taught in government schools are counter to beliefs of religion.
I don’t see a solution to the problem that doesn’t cause crazy amounts of abuse other than the government completely gets out of education, or local communities/governments alone support it and the school matches the beliefs of the local community.
None of that seems plausible. So how do you respect the 1st amendment rights of people like the article talks about?
I've found that none of the words of the Amendments mean anything like what the dictionary says.
If the words "In God We Trust" on the money, and "Under God" in the we're-pretending-it's-not-mandatory prayer, aren't "establishment of religion", then I have no idea what the Constitution says.
How do we respect the "rights" of those people? We let them homeschool their kids. And if they want a tax break for it, we increase their taxes to pay for the sheer number of things that other people pay for but don't use.
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That's a pretty big assumption. "Secular humanism," as far as I know, doesn't have prayers, rituals, or dogma -- it's basically "be nice to others."
I think it's a term invented by Christians to lump non-believers into a category they can then rail against.
My point is more that as a parent I shouldn’t be forced to pay for an education i wouldn’t give my children.
Secular humanism not being a religion, does have a set of beliefs. It would seem unconstitutional if someone had to pay a teacher to teach my kids the Bible, or the Quran, and many things taught in government schools are counter to beliefs of religion.
I don’t see a solution to the problem that doesn’t cause crazy amounts of abuse other than the government completely gets out of education, or local communities/governments alone support it and the school matches the beliefs of the local community.
None of that seems plausible. So how do you respect the 1st amendment rights of people like the article talks about?
I've found that none of the words of the Amendments mean anything like what the dictionary says.
If the words "In God We Trust" on the money, and "Under God" in the we're-pretending-it's-not-mandatory prayer, aren't "establishment of religion", then I have no idea what the Constitution says.
How do we respect the "rights" of those people? We let them homeschool their kids. And if they want a tax break for it, we increase their taxes to pay for the sheer number of things that other people pay for but don't use.