The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
I agree. Culture and religion are not the responsibility -- or the jurisdiction -- of schools and daycare centers that are intended for multicultural participants. If parents want to have their children taught religion and culture in a daycare setting, let them set up -- and fund -- their own private centers for such things. Public monies should never be used for it.
ReplyDeleteHowever. Children being the knowledge sponges that they are, and carrying the basis for future society as they do, I would suggest that if the parents all wished it, each religion and culture could display its own traditions at every season. But it must be all-inclusive, with full explanations of the stories and mythologies behind each of the displays, emphasizing that no one single culture or religion is "better than" any other -- that all are acceptable, and that they contain the histories of the development of their peoples and societies within them.
"...a Christmas tree (a cultural symbol, she decreed – which is highly debatable since Christmas is a Christian holy day)."
Um, no. The tree is not Christian. It is a Pagan symbol. Nowhere in Christianity is there a tree with such significance.