The Repository
  • Freedom of religion protects all of us

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  • Regarding "Students speak out at North Canton BOE" (Dec. 19): Freedom of religion is not the same as freedom from religion. I read with sadness about the Hoover High School graduation venue being changed because, supposedly, one local parent had an issue.
    I wonder if such a parent actually exists. If yes, did he or she notify the school on his or her own?
    Anyone who has been in the area awhile probably recalls that the Lake Local Board of Education was intimidated into removing "belief in God" from the district's mission statement by the same Wisconsin-based group, Freedom From Religion Foundation.
    What I learned in history and civics was that freedom of religion protects us from the government deciding on a single religion for all of us, as existed in the 1700s in England. What kind of idiotic judges and perverse logic convert that into removing Christmas trees from military bases or from in front of buildings? Or outlawing school prayer?
    If you don't like Christian symbols at Christmas, leave your house bare.
    Why the hell can a minuscule minority be successful at this kind of bullying? Who funds them? What law are they able to stand behind?