South Carolina to give credit for off-campus religious courses

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The S.C. legislature has created a path to make religion part of the high school curriculum. Under a bill that became law Wednesday, school districts may grant credit for off-campus religious courses.

The practice is called "release time." Parents grant permission for their children to be "released" during school for privately run courses. The concept was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952 as permissible, as long as classes are off campus, no public funding goes into the program and participation is voluntary.

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I just want to make sure my Pagan friends get credit for their classes too. They will, right?

O8)

This was Kansas; in the afternoons at my elementary school, for a couple of years, those of us who were Protestant went off to the Presbyterian church, and the Catholics went off to their church.

I remember thinking that this is the sort of thing that'd never happen again. I guess I was wrong.

:puke:

And since so much of my Pagan self-education has included studying various world mythologies, I think mythology courses should count too. What did Joseph Campbell say? "Mythology is other people's religion." :)

over there as Light of the World.

By golly, if they get credit for Christianity, every religion should be represented. The end.

And welcome to DU!

:toast:

those people are nuts.

Some of us just don't have the money to get out.

and my apologies to all South Carolina D.U.'ers. We've got plenty of wing-nuts here in Virginia too.

They will drop even further behind in education than they already are. What are they, 45th of the 50 states or something? Guess they'll attract all the faith-based jobs of the future with such a well-educated populace.

Students with brains will opt to get an education that will help them get out of there!

Our next door neighbor, SC, is making a move to head for the bottom along with us. :(

We've ranked -52nd- in all the years I've lived here (behind the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico).

I love SC and GA but we've got to rid ourselves of the fundy-wingnut grip on our respective state governments. :(

I think we pulled up to 50th once or twice and dropped back again.

that is a battle that this peace-loving Pagan would be happy to take up. Just watching the hypocrites squirm would be worth the effort.

Pagans should get some religious history classes "certified" with curriculum requirements met. When the wingnuts cry foul, the ACLU should be on the ready to take the case on up to SCOTUS.

If we are a religious country, then we must be an inclusive religious country. Frankly, for reasons like this, the Founding Fathers found it wise to erect a big wall between the United States and its religious nutjobs.

Otherwise, we are likely to all be spending our time on Earth in battle--like the Middle East has been for a few thousand years. :eyes:

state sponsered religious schools? Some of them centuries old?

...during those centuries, right?

The folks who wrote the US Constitution were just
acting like silly schoolgirls when they decided
against letting the goverment support any religion;
there's really no harm that can ever come of it.

and admit that you have a point.

the flaw of this program will become quite evident, and it will be struck down by the courts.