A lesson in the importance of Separation of Church and State from right-wing Town Hall

[Ian David]

The following is from a right-wing asshole on the Town Hall blog, who illustrates for us why even right-wing conservatives SHOULD be in favor of The Separation of Church and State... although it looks like the moron misses the main point.



Muslim—and Mormon—teaching in our Public Schools.
Posted by Phil E. on Friday, April 11, 2008 11:54:43 AM

Outrage

I trust you were outraged to read the story on WorldNetDaily about the public funded school in Minnesota, located in a Muslim mosque, that is actively teaching children about Islam. So I trust you would be just as outraged to learn that Mormons in Utah also teach about Mormonism in our public schools?
Late in class

It's called "Utah History." Seems innocuous enough. But ask any non-Mormon parent about what is taught to their non-Mormon children in Utah public schools as Utah history. Why, they're taught about Joseph Smith, Founder of the Mormon church, of course.

Except that Joseph Smith had nothing to do with Utah history. You see, by the time the Mormons got to Utah, Joseph Smith was "late." As in "the late" Joseph Smith. He was dead. He was killed by an angry mob (for treason) in Nauvoo, Illinois.

What does Mitt Romney say?

I "image and suppose" Mitt Romney would say he's against taxpayer money being used to teach Islam in our public schools.


Revisionist History?
Joseph Smith a part of American history?
(Could just as easily be the "prophet" Mohammed.)

More:
http://romneyforpresident.blogtownhall.com/2008/04/11/muslimmdash;and_mormonmdash;teaching_in_our_public_schools.thtml

[mac2]

1. People get crazy when you demand they take their

religion out of the schools or public forum. They don't seem to know the Constitution and how religion could destroy their religious freedoms and our democracy.
Public funding only makes them more powerful. They are now running their own candidates for public office forcing their religious agenda on us all. Why should any of us support the teaching of another religion?

The History channel is unashamed to re-write history and bad mouth the founders (thus democracy). Media has put Rev. Wright in our faces and his supports think it's great. It is not.

[kestrel91316]

2. Something tells me Phil E. would have NO problem with the

bible being taught as history in public schools.........

[Kitty Herder]

3. When I was a kid, we learned about Utah history in

the same grade that we were learning about Church history in primary. (That's what most church's call Sunday school, but in Mormonism, the adults go to Sunday school and the kids go to Primary.)

So it's all mixed up in my memory and I can't remember what I learned in school and what I learned in Primary. They just kind of blended together. It does seem like we learned an awful lot of "churchy"
stuff in school and that seemed odd to me at the time.

But you really can't teach Utah history without including some Mormon history. Hell, you can't teach the history of the American west without some Mormon history.

Anyway, my point is that you sometimes have to teach about religion in school, but these right-wing idiots want to teach religion in the public schools. As long as it's their religion. And they get away with it under guises like Utah history.