smear campaign against judge hamilton?
i can't stand ignorance and much less people who are wilfully ignorant and expect their opinions not only respected, but accepted! oh how they resent being confronted with an unwaveringly righteous: « you're wrong!»! and how much pleasure i derive... so right now my wrath is directed at all mediawhores, parents, teachers, ignorant theists and a-theists alike, who don't get that the gray delicate mass inside their skull will not ooze out their ears if they use it to think instead of hate, discriminate and attempt to impose their ignorance on others.reports in print, broadcast and all over the internet today have been attacking US district judge phyllis hamilton (yes, the brilliant san francisco federal judge who ealier this week overturned the unconstitutional law signed by religious zealot george dubya bush banning so-called partial-birth abortions) for allegedly allowing a teacher to "force" her students to pray in the classroom. and not just pray, but pray as muslims! LOL the bloody idiots! had that been the case my complaints would have awakened life on mars. the headlines read: «teacher forces students to muslim prayer», «same judge ok'd muslim prayer» and so on and they are all wrong and pandering to ignorant theists, right-wing zealots and covertly also trying to recruit unsuspecting brights to a smear campaign against judge hamilton..
in a december 2003 decision judge hamilton wrote it was lawful for a california middle school teacher to require students to role-play as muslims and so read the text of muslim prayers and get down on their knees. the class was an islamic studies course in which the children were asked to read and recite texts from the koran and to fast or give up something like tv for a day (to experience during that time islam's month of ramadan). and it was lawful because role-playing is not tantamount to the exercise of religion! when the childred read or recited phrases from the koran or prayers they were not praying nor worshipping, but just reading, reciting and play-acting.
were i a parent of a child at the school i would have very serious concerns about the teaching of such a course in a public school and indeed the methods used to teach it since children usually have not yet developed the critical thinking/judgement skills needed to differentiate between religious indoctrination and education in cultural and social studies, especially if the teacher is a theist.
