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Love will win in the end

 

If you look at this and think "sick" and/or "wrong," then I truly pity you. Life is beautiful, love even more so, and two people loving one another is never a bad thing, regardless of what your superstitions say.

Can you feel the Christlove?

Hemant Mehta over at the The Friendly Atheist wrote a post yesterday about an issue close to home.

Horizon Christian Elementary, a private religious school in Tualatin, OR, which is about fifteen minutes from my house, recently told a diabetic 5th grader that she would not be welcome in class with her service dog. Religious schools have no legal compulsion to follow the Americans with Disabilities Act, and as such, this student will now be attending a public school.

Hemant put it succinctly:

The one time Anika needs support from her community the most, the school administrators just run away from her problem. It speaks volumes about their character.

Like many people who claim to follow Jesus, it seems that these people are being guided primarily by the question, "What works best for me?" instead of, "What would Jesus do?"

In other recent news on the religious private school front, a state court in Louisiana just ruled that Bobby Jindal's pet voucher program is unconstitutional, although the ruling will almost certainly be appealed. Of course, there was an outcry earlier this year when it was made known that voucher funds could also be sent to non-christian religious schools, so anyone that's been paying attention should already know that this program is a thinly veiled attempt to funnel tax dollars to christian coffers.

On a more personal note, people in my family have recently found my blog. Hi. I didn't go out of my way to tell any of them about it, but it's also not exactly like I've been hiding in some dark, remote corner of the internet. After all, my site is named I Am Dan Marshall, that's about as obvious as you can get. I'll try make things a little easier on you, and give you some links to get started. You can read an email exchange I had with an old theist friend (part 1, part 2), or about why I think many of the core aspects of religion are dangerous to both society and the individual. To the right you will see what is called a tag cloud, which is a way you can view my posts based on the subject. I've written over a hundred pages worth of material since I started this site, so feel free to check it out.