Monday, November 30, 2009

End discrimination against Atheist


The Freedom From Religion Foundation deals with many complaints from many taxpayers dealing with the topic of atheist and public schools.  The problem is the schools policy regarding the censorship of web content dealing with views on atheist.  The website of FFRF is open to the public and gives details on freethought and nontheism.  The problem here is that it seems to "promote religion over non-religion which goes against the Establishment Clause.  They say that it is discriminating against the 15% of the population that is non-religious. One of the quotes stated by Kratz was "The policy not only violates the rights of students in the school district, but limits their capacity to expand their knowledge and acceptance on all individuals and beliefs."   The Freedom From Religion Foundation responded by requesting the district to change its ways by blocking all religious and non-religious websites which could be a problem due to the numerous websites containing information on religion.  
I think that it is a good idea for the school district to get rid of the content that talks about atheism because it can have an effect on students either attracting them to the idea or completely going against them and then they may treat people who are atheist with disrespect.  You never know what could happen which is why it is best to not promote websites dealing with religion that way students can figure out their own beliefs instead of going off of other people's views.   

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