(May 4, 2011 at 8:12 pm)Atman Wrote: In most states private schools and home schooling are allowed to teaching Creationism as a legitimate scientific theory.
They're private, they can teach what they like. Only institutions receiving state funding should be obligated to comply with the state's secular mandate - If parents want to teach their children nonsense they can, they can also send them to someone else to be taught nonsense.
Quote:The state governments allow chaplains in the public school system and evangelists posing as "scripture teachers".
That's fucked up. We had "Religious Education" when I was at primary school, it should have been called "Fundie dogma" - I was the first person to get forcibly removed from the classes from writing "God is a fag" all over my books. I'd never gotten along with the Principle until that point, but after that we got along alright, seeing as I had to go sit in his office once a week, he couldn't hide the smile on his face when he learned what happened.
Quote:No state or territory has come around to recognizing same sex marriages and even our self professed "Atheist" Prime Minister is opposed to that happening (at least in public).
Only Victoria and the ACT have so far legal abortion on demand, with restrictions of various sorts in other states.
Move to NZ
We have the condescending "civil unions" and abortions up until the the fetus can survive independently.
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