{"id":137,"date":"2003-12-08T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2003\/12\/08\/teaching-religion-to-kids\/index.php"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"teaching-religion-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2003\/12\/08\/teaching-religion-to-kids\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"teaching religion to kids…."},"content":{"rendered":"

earlier today, this article – Click!<\/a> – was on the front page of cnn.com. To make a long story short, there’s a father living in Pennsylvania who believes that polygamy is a good thing and therefore is teaching his 10 year old daughter about this. Surprisingly, the courts said that it is illegal for him to do so, even though he is arguing that polygamy is part of his religion and that he should have the right to teach his own child to practice whichever religion he wishes.<\/p>\n

honestly, i’m really surprised that the court ruled that way. for the most part parents are allowed to teach their kids whatever the hell they please in regards to religion. for instance, i couldn’t imagine the courts getting involved if he taught his daughter that women are totally subservient to men as many religious zealots think… or if he taught her that gay people are evil sinners that will go to hell… or if he told her that masturbation will make god hate you forever. honestly, it terrifies me to think of the crazy shit that a lot of people teach their kids. and it’s not just the parents. i just read some statistic saying that almost a third of US school systems dont teach their students anything about evolution. hell, in some states you legally aren’t even allowed to teach that evolution is anything more than one of many possibilities of how the world works. in fact, according to recent polls, 47% of americans do not believe in evolution whatsoever. 47%!!!<\/p>\n

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earlier today, this article – Click! – was on the front page of cnn.com. To make a long story short, there’s a father living in Pennsylvania who believes that polygamy is a good thing and therefore is teaching his 10 year old daughter about this. Surprisingly, the courts said that it is illegal for him … Continue reading “teaching religion to kids….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}