re: #911 Salamantis

So you think that a prohibition against miscegenation, or race-mixing, is a Christian, American, or Western value? Because CCC advocates that on their site.

No, I could never support that. Any prohibition against race mixing is a terrible thing, nor did I ever say I did support such an abomination. You know, I hate having to defend something someone else said. My entire point was if there was a doubt, one should go directly to the source and ask them exactly what they mean, not jump to conclusions.

And yet, having said that, when I looked back at the site, I don’t see any call for a law or prohibition on race-mixing as you describe. They are clearly against forced integration, but that’s a pretty common position among all races and cultures. Let’s be objective here; their focus isn’t on race, per se, but on reserving the right to preserve what they feel is traditional Western (read European) values. Just playing Devil’s advocate, are you saying that they don’t have a right to preserve those values from a government determined to force them to change according to the dictates of some currently acceptable social agenda? Is mandated social engineering constitutional to you?

The American way shouldn’t be to violate the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution by forcing the teaching of religious dogma as fact to other peoples’ kids in public high school science class.

That’s your definition of the 1st Amendment, not mine. Constitutional scholars recognize that the rights in the Bill of Rights sometimes tread on each other. Sure, I would hate to have creationism taught to my kids, but there exists the right of a community, through its school board, to determine what that school district teaches. Would you really like to remove that right?

Consider:

If I think that creationism is BS, and I don’t want it taught on that basis, then I can fight it at the school council, support a candidate that doesn’t believe in it, or run for office myself. I have a similar right to demand that anything I feel is BS not be taught, including multiculturalism, historical revisionism, or feel-good cultural equivalency.

The danger is that if you deny the creationists their right to impose their misguided will by majority vote, you hand over the power to determine what is taught to the state or Federal government — a far worse situation. I’ll take the rare creationist hit, thank you very much, over tossing all my rights. At least now, I can move to another school district if I don’t like what they teach. Under your 1st Amendment interpretation, I would have no place to go.