The Truth About Radical Christians
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If he is any good as a teacher, he will.
You'd be sanguine with a Muslim or Wiccan teacher leading your children in prayer or ritual?
Witnessing a teacher pray is not the same as being required to pray with the teacher. Apples and oranges. As a practical matter I would object to the school authorities that this is inappropriate to the circumstances. If they refused to act, I would have to decide whether or not to keep my kid in that school.
However, I would not teach my child take offense at the expression of beliefs other than his own merely because they are not his own. That's a lesson that needs to be learned early on in a pluralistic society. By the same token I would teach him to speak out against the expression of noxious ideas. In short, I would not demand that such conflicts become legal disputes, let alone federal cases, because the law should not -- indeed, cannot -- resolve most problems we have in living with one another. As a conservative I have no fondness for reducing society to legalisms.
That said, one can contrive hypotheticals that posit conflicts between free exercise and establishment in public schools, but such a conflict is resolved by the fact that the establishment clause is subordinate to free exercise. Therefore, if public schools cannot be operated without curtailing the free exercise of religion, because such exercise somehow constitutes establishment by the woolly legalism of secularists, then it is the public schools that must go, not free exercise.
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