Getting Hairy in Hendersonville

Todd Starnes has a column at Townhall about an apparently lack of separation of mosque and state:

A Tennessee high school has decided to revise its field trip policy after a group of freshmen were taken to an Islamic mosque where they were given copies of the Koran and while a student who opted out of the trip was given a worksheet that alleged Muslims treated their conquered people better than the United States treated minorities.

The students were in an honors world studies class at Hendersonville High School and the field trips to the mosque as well as a Hindu temple were part of a three-week course on world religions.

But some parents objected to the trips and wondered why the school would tour a mosque but not a Christian church or a Jewish synagogue.

Because there is a war against Judeo-Christian values.

During their visit to the Hindu temple, students engaged in meditation.

Prayer in school?

Taxpayer-funded schools run by "secular" government might have made sense back on the day when we had more homogenous, isolated communities and we didn't have the networked, interactive communications systems we have now. It is a different world now, and instead of the federal government taking a larger and larger role in education, we need saparation of state and school. This is just one of many reasons why.

I'm an evangelical Christian. I have no problem with the idea of students visiting a mosque and getting a Koran. EXCEPT, we KNOW the ACLU and the like would freak out of the students were taken to a Christian church and given Bibles. But quibbling about these things is like arguing about the deck chairs while the Titanic sinks. Take your children out of the government schools, and vote against funding them.