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I would like my children to be exposed to the underlying tenets of Christianity in school. I would like them to be taught the moral lessons that are readily available in The Holy Bible in school. The government penalizes me for this by forcing me to pay for other people’s children to go to government school while paying a second time for my own children to go to school.

This is the issue that it all boils down to. I’m forced at gunpoint to pay for things that are, to me, obviously wrong.

Personally, I don't think ID is science, but you're spot on about the public schools. There's no reason why we taxpayers should be forced to support these abysmal government schools. About the only thing they do successfully is indoctrinate students to a liberal world view and spend obscene amounts of money.

And the government schools are the root cause of this whole controversy. If we all sent our kids to private schools of our choice, some of us would send our kids to secular schools, some to Christian schools and some to madrassahs or other nut factories. In any event, if we had a problem with the schools curriculum we would be free to send our kids to another school with a different curriculum.

>> I would like my children to be exposed to the underlying tenets of Christianity in school. I would like them to be taught the moral lessons that are readily available in The Holy Bible in school. The government penalizes me for this by forcing me to pay for other people’s children to go to government school while paying a second time for my own children to go to school. This is the issue that it all boils down to. I’m forced at gunpoint to pay for things that are, to me, obviously wrong. <<

Perhaps you would feel more comfortable living in a country where Christianity is the state-sponcered religion. For example, in in Finland the "Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland" is the official religion of the country and laws can can be amended only by a decision of the Synod of the Evengelical Lutheran Church and subsequent ratification by the parliament.

Unfortunately for you, the country you currently live in is founded on the freedom of the religion, so the government has no power to teach Christianity in public schools. We do not force Americans who are non-Christian, such as Jews and Hindus, to learn "the Holy Bible" through the use of public taxdollars. As you noted, there's nothing stopping you from having your kids taught religious lessons in school, as long as you are willing to spend the money and time to have them educated at a private school. It worked just fine for me as a kid, my parents saw to it that I attended a public school on weekday mornings and afternoons and attended CCD (Confraternity of Christian Doctrine) classes on Monday evening and was raised Christian.

Unfortunately for you, George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson founded this country to specific-prohibit a state-sponcered religion and you choose to raise your kids in this nation. Perhaps you should look into countries where Christianity is the "official" religion if this bothers you so much.