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Originally posted by 914GT
Separation of church and state is a myth. Go read the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"
Get that last part? The states, local schools, etc. can do what the people want. The federal government should have no involvement in matters of local government and local school districts. It's only Congress that cannot make laws establishing or prohibiting religion. If anything, your statement actually violates the first amendment. You want Congress to pass laws preventing the free exercise of religion.
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The Judicial system gets to interpret that and in the case of constitutional law that would be the Supreme court. I believe that they made a ruling on that one already, but hey they could change their minds. It is mostly about Federal Funding as BlueSky pointed out.
So lets turn the table on this slightly. Say there is a large Muslim population in City X. The citizens there overwhelmingly want to model their public schools like traditional muslim schools. Will you be cool with that?
I wonder what public schools are like wrt religion in Utah.