On 4/24/13 8:56 AM, Wayne B wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:20:47 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

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To understand what the fuss is about I think you have to put yourself
in the minority view for a minute. For example, what if you lived in
a town that had an Islamic majority, and everywhere you went there
were Islamic religious symbols on display. After a while you would
probably come around to the view that Islam was the "official"
religion and that everything else,

Well, not if you were in America and ever went to school..

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I think you're forgetting that the purpose of this exercise is to put
yourself in someone else's shoes for a moment. One of the big issues
is that the parents in "other" religions resent having their children
surrounded by christian religious symbols. I think that's
understandable.



During grammar and junior high when I was growing up in New Haven, we
had "holiday assemblies" at public school. They were "ecumenical." There
were no such assemblies at my public high school. I don't recall if
there were any holiday decorations on the public's "green" in the center
of downtown or anywhere else. The majority populations at that time were
Roman Catholic and Jewish, and there were plenty of "ecumenical" social
events. During grammar and junior high, the local Catholic church, which
was a few blocks from where we lived, had lots of afterschool activities
under the watchful eye of nuns, and every kid, no matter his/her
background, was welcomed.