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To: antiRepublicrat
It is the extreme liberals and conservatives who have tried and done that. Oh really, and when was it that the extreme liberals tried it and did it?

And did the overwhelming majority of American communities seek out the extreme liberals and ask them to push their extreme liberalism into each community school?

When is the last time you ever heard a conservative say they wanted to stop anyone from having their own private school? Did you write that just for filler, to pretend its just kind of a balance thing? That is a red herring if I ever heard one.

101 posted on 08/23/2010 12:44:26 PM PDT by OriginalIntent (undo all judicial activism and its results)
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To: OriginalIntent
Oh really, and when was it that the extreme liberals tried it and did it?

The liberals are doing it right now. Isn't that what you're complaining about? Including the "two mommies" books in grade school is quite clearly an effort to use the public school system to teach their morality to kids.

And did the overwhelming majority of American communities seek out the extreme liberals and ask them to push their extreme liberalism into each community school?

It doesn't matter who the majority is. It matters who's running the schools.

I'm lucky. I live in a fairly conservative area, so the education appears to only be slightly left-slanted. Remember that big televised Obama propaganda speech for school kids last year? Obviously, hoping the school wouldn't show it at all was wishful thinking. But school policy from the outset, without the need for parent protests, was that any kid can opt-out with no repercussion. My daughter came home with the opt-out slip and flat-out told me, with no prodding from me, that she wanted out. I was so proud of her!

When is the last time you ever heard a conservative say they wanted to stop anyone from having their own private school?

That was the Supreme Court case I cited. Losing that probably broke the spirit of the conservative authoritarians on this subject, leaving the liberal authoritarians to later come in and fill the power vacuum. That was a really strange case. The conservative authoritarians didn't lose to liberals, but a Catholic school and a conservative military academy.

There's social conservatism and small-government conservatism. The two are mutually exclusive when it comes to social conservatives wanting to spread conservative values by force of government. At that point they become the big-government liberals, just on the other side of the social coin.

102 posted on 08/23/2010 1:54:10 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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