Debate: DO YOU SUPPORT PRESIDENT OBAMAS DECISION TO BUILD A MOSQUE AT GROUND ZERO
Side: No

Untrue. A teacher in public school would get straight up FIRED for saying a prayer before class.Actually not. They would receive disciplinary action if word got out, that could end in termination depending on the sentiment in the area.Besides this, such a situation is in clear violation of the law, especially our constitution, and it would therefore be appropriate.Finally, this changes the topic, doesn't address what I said.You don't even have to aproach the level of authoritarianism to get in hot water with the liberal agenda What's this now? Breaking the law gets you canned. How liberal.Neo Nazis can march anywhere and practice their freedom of speechRight. No law against that.but now liberals are turning any christian teaching that homosexuality is a sin into hate speech, Hate speech provisions exist, and they are employed under certain circumstances, like television broadcasts. They do not refer to casual speech, but specific kinds of advertisement of speech.The Christian issue about preaching homosexuality is a sin is really about calling homosexuals fagots, intimidating them with death threats, and so on. It's the same as litigating against calling black people sinners and advocating for their lynching. This is what "preaching homosexuality is a sin" actually means:http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gay-hate-sign2.jpg If you can't act cordially in public channels, radio, and so on, then it's your own damned faults for issuing death threats and not keeping your traps shut.Now listen to what i'm saying, the BELIEF that homosexuality is wrong and that we should not hate homosexuals but pray for them is now hate speech! Whether you agree or not is not the point.No it isn't. Try researching hate speech laws and their scope. You can believe what you want, and can talk about what you want. If you go on a radio, print in news papers, or go on television and proclaim that fagots must die, you just engaged in hate speech.You still haven't rebutted my original statement:"intolerant of authoritarianism and charlatans?" There are multiple cases now of science teachers being fired for entertaining the possibility of intelligent design (in a scientific way).Public school teachers may not promote their religion in a government funded institution.Intelligent design is religious, not science. I don't care if you think it is science, the matter has been settled by the scientific community, in other words the experts, and has been settled on a court of law, again by experts.You may as well be asking that teachers be allowed to promote the Quran in science class as scientific. What? You didn't know that Islamic creationists already do this? Well, look.http://harunyahya.us/evolution_introduction.php Whether you think the arguements are weak or strong for intelligent design is not the point.The point is that it isn't science, but religion.The point is you will be fired for even mentioning the possitive arguements for it in public school.Same as prayer, you may face disciplinary action, and rightly so. Secular government cannot support taxpayer dollars going to the promotion of religious ideas.And i'm sorry but isn't science all about accepting challenges and testing out new hypotheses, etc.Yes, like Cold Fusion, and Planet X. Intelligent Design didn't follow the rules of science (makes unfalsifiable claims) and didn't publish research pertinent to itself in scientific journals or credible academic institutions. What claims it did make that could be falsified were falsified by experts.It isn't close-minded to reject something that has been falsified, or doesn't play by the rules.Make no mistake, liberals have a religion of their own and it is becoming more and more intolerant to oppose their beliefs (and even if their beliefs are true it is scary that religious people are being forced into silence).This statement is stating the obvious but in a misrepresenting way. Liberalism is a philosophy. Many liberals are Christians, Muslims, Jews, Atheists and so on.It is scary that people are not becoming freaked out that freedom of speech is in troubleTaking advantage of your authority as teacher to indoctrinate students into a religion on the state's dollar is not a freedom of speech issue. Learn to keep your religion out of the classroom. That is professionalism.