[lbo-talk] HELP! MOM!! THERE ARE LIBERALS UNDER MY BED!!!

Jim from_alamut at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 20 09:21:04 PDT 2005


In teh 19th century school boards to save school funds from the "Catholic immigrant hordes" started adding biblical texts to required reading material knowing that Cathlolics at that time were not allowed to read/interpret teh Bible for themselves. This caused catholics to have to create their own schools.

jim

--- John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote:


> Doug Henwood quotes someone (Pittsburgh
> Tribune-Review, perhaps?):
>
> > She also points to the prohibition on prayer in
> school
>
> This "prohibition" is, of course, non-existent, but
> it's reported as if it
> were true. The ban is on public school-organized
> prayer.
>
> This brings up a question I've sometimes wondered
> about: do the polls on
> public school prayer break it out into
> Protestant-vs.-Catholic? Catholics
> were historically opposed to prayer in public
> schools in the United States,
> because the prayers were inevitably Protestant
> prayers. My own parents, who
> were raised as Catholics, talked about how they were
> instructed not to say
> the Lord's Prayer in school, since it ended with
> that "For the kingdom and
> the power . . . " stuff, which was a Protestant
> add-on. I imagine nowadays
> the Latin-Mass nostalgics are making common cause
> with the
> speaking-in-tongues crowd who just a few decades ago
> would have said in
> public that the Pope is the Antichrist.
>
>
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>
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