Now just wait a minute. I am clinging to the whole not being a suicide bomber = good behavior!!!! Don't take that away from me too!!!
Seriously though... I guess I get frustrated with always being labeled as a freak just because of my faith.
As to being despised and feared... well I never have been feared(except at a buffet maybe), but am normally despised because of my faith.
And you mention that the absence of a religion does not a rational person make, but too often the presence of religion labels us as nuts.
No, I don't feel that the law should be employed to make people believe like me. If that is your way to bring people in, you're screwed. You can't legislate morality/religion/belief. Just wont work.
But at the same time, teaching Creationism as a counterpoint to evolution doesn't harm anybody. Especially if it is an elected group of people pushing this who are representing those who elected them. Or even better, present Creationism as a counterpoint, but without the same hours requirement. No need to spend equal time (seriously - God made it, it's what creationist believe, shouldn't take more than an afternoon to discuss and move on) but it allows another viewpoint to be presented. There's no need to try spend an equal amount of time to invalidate evolution. Even I believe in the adaption of species, and survival of the fittest, but not as an origin of man. Learning is the exposure to multiple viewpoints, and be able to assemble information from multiple sources.
