I thought we all understood that public education is a false paradigm. Why are we concerned with the state of Georgia funding Bible studies courses? Why are we quoting Maggie Garrett, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia the legislation is favoring Christianity over other religions by the excluding other religious books.
That s probably true, but so what? Who cares what the socialist ACLU thinks? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that in committee some Georgia House members were concerned that the measure favors Christianity over other religions Well, clearly, it does.
And furthermore, that is a blatant violation of the spirit, if not the legal letter of the concept of separation of Church and State. But the digbats in the Georgia state legislature can t be expected to figure out that the problem is not what they decide to do, but rather that they have a say in the matter to begin with. Instead of just reporting these inappropriate statist machinations, why doesn t the article on the LP site use it to point out how Libertarian solutions obviate sectarian conflicts?
This article comes across as nothing more than MSM drivel, it s so non-committal about a matter in regards which Libertarians should be highly opinionated. Afraid of somewhere, somehow putting off a potential voter? Well, ok, since the LP won t do it s job here, (we re supposed to get used to that, right ?
), I ll handle it for them. In a truly free society, education is strictly in private hands, so issues of separation of Church and State do not enter into the questions of what should or should not be taught in schools. As a non-parent, I should have absolutely no say in what is taught in any given school, unless I make a charitable contribution, or devote part of my time and energy to that school.
As an atheist, I have absolutely no right to deny Christian parents the option to have their children taught religious doctrine as part of their education. Again, in a free society, my disagreement with the Christian majority would not be a source of conflict and discord. It is the winner-take-all statist paradigm that is the source of conflict, not my supposedly good secular proclivities in conflict with the evil theocratic inclinations of devout Christians.
ACLU socialists are very good at couching these conflicts in terms of separation of church and state . But of course, Libertarians understand that it is the inappropriate involvement of the state in education that is the fundamental source of the problem, not any disagreements between we atheists and the Christian majority. Atheists do not have our rights violated when religion is taught in schools, we have our rights violated when government takes over education.
We have our rights violated at our fundamental sameness with all our fellow human beings, regardless of our opinions about the matters that are the focus of most religions. I d like to say that this failure to use the issue to promote Libertarian solutions, when the problem begs it so severely, is the worst I could find. But nooooo, as the late, great John Belushi used to say.
We are also treated to much hand-wringing as to whether or not our slimy-tary of state, Condolizard: would make a good commish for the NFL: Lets s not bother about such trivia as, say, her determination to nuke Iran. I thought we all understood that public education is a false paradigm.
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