I would like to know how solid Paul's information is on this occurrence. I don't live in Oklahoma (though my father's family left there during the Depression), but I'd think such blatant anti-Semitism would be very unusual there.

 

I'd also be interested in Michael's reaction to the nomination to the Supreme Court of another Catholic by our evangelical Protestant President. If the Protestant empire is alive and well, why no Protestant outcry after the replacement of an evangelical Protestant nominee (Harriet Miers) with a Catholic nominee who, if confirmed, would give Catholics an absolute majority on the Court?

 

Mark S. Scarberry

Pepperdine University School of Law

 

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From: Newsom Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Do we know, for a fact, that the "uninformed bigotry" is limited to the one student?

 


From: Brad M Pardee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:06 PM
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Zealotry?  How is a group of kids meeting together to pray qualify as zealotry?  And how does one child's uninformed bigotry have anything to do with whether or not kids meet together to pray?  Surely you're not suggesting that kids should hide their faith at school, as though it was something to be ashamed of.

Brad

Paul Finkelman wrote on 10/31/2005 12:38:45 PM:

> WHere I live (Oklahoma) some teachers in some public schools take
> attendance at the "See you at the Polls" meetings and some give extra
> credit for those who   attend.  Students who do not attend are often
> shunned by others. In one school a young man was holding the door for
> students to enter the school but then closed it in the face of a girl,
> saying, "I do not hold the door for Jews."   This is not a school
> sanctioned act -- rather it is the act of a student, but it does
> illustrate the social climate created by bringing religious zealotry to
> the school.

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