Religious Display at Public Schools
The Virginia House of Delegates should not have passed a bill legalizing the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools (Feb. 9). To display the Ten Commandments in public schools is to impose the Judeo-Christian faiths on people who don’t follow them. How would Christians feel if a passage from the Koran was displayed in public schools?
Josh Rivetz
Northridge
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So the sponsor of Virginia’s Ten Commandments law, Assembly Delegate L. Scott Lingamfelter, says it’s “not about religion.” Hello? Has Lingamfelter bothered to read the commandments, the first of which says, “I am the Lord thy God . . . thou shalt have no other gods before me”?
If that’s “not about religion” what is?
Erann Gat
Altadena
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