The Corporation and Test Acts Re: A poor leftist

JCWisc at aol.com JCWisc at aol.com
Mon Jun 3 22:59:53 PDT 2002


In a message dated 06/04/2002 12:30:00 AM Central Daylight Time, furuhashi.1 at osu.edu writes:


> Oftentimes, though, peer pressures, if not laws, make it feel as if
> we were living in the times of the Corporation and Test Acts (Cf.
> <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Ltest.htm>) -- you either take
> the sacrament of patriotism ritualistically or else will be at least
> excluded from public office, Kiwanis clubs, etc. (or worse).

You are very right. I dislike participating in patriotic rituals, but feel that I have to sometimes. Long march through the institutions, eh? The mustard seed planted on barren ground?

Jacob Conrad



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