Religious dagger OK at Auburn elementary school

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

56. I'll challenge your language.

Is it 'discrimination' when you ask every student to wear a school uniform?

While I certainly think you can 'discriminate' by having everyone do the same thing - ie, the 'no one should be allowed to sleep under bridges, whether rich or poor', which in reality only discriminates against the poor, since you're not going to find rich people needing to sleep under bridges, I disagree in saying that certain areas of public life should be 'free from religion' is anything more than protecting the public from being coerced into the religion of the majority.

I think we' as a nation, are failing in our attempts to avoid a 'state religion' in a variety of places - from the word on money to the end of the pledge, to government meetings being opened with prayers. And while we focus on not allowing teachers or schools to bring religion in to impose upon students, it's simply an end-run around that objective if we allow religious students to do so as their parents' proxies. The religious administrators and teachers have their plausible deniability, and 'clean hands', but the result is the same, with students being repeatedly exposed to the symbols and tenets of specific religions, thanks to the actions of their peers.