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I want to thank Betsy McCaughey for her column (in the Nov. 5 edition) celebrating the current Supreme Court's fixation with continuing to try to erase the clear separation the First Amendment of the Constitution requires between church and state. She is right about only one thing: those who wish to insert even more religious symbols and traditions into our already burdened and underfunded public schools had better move fast.
Schools have a clear job to do. The last thing our underpaid teachers, counselors, and administrators need is to have to tangle with a platoon of religious promoters trying to instill the particular religious content they've decided manages to suit their own personal choices into an already packed school day.
The First Amendment clearly states that Congress "shall make no law respecting an establishment" of the more than 10,000 religions available for people to explore and celebrate if they so choose. No school or teacher should have to sort through these options to suit a dominant tradition intent on bullying their way into a lesson plan or public funding.
Enjoy your religion, Ms. McCaughey. But keep it out of the schools, so that all perspectives can be treated with dignity and courtesy.