Reply #31: Would you be so supportive if ... [View All]

[Dogmudgeon]

... a private school opened that required all its girl students to be clitorally "circumcised" by age 13?

After all, it's private, and the child is completely subject to the whims of the adult.

"Christian" (including "Catholic") schools depend on public worship of the false idol of religious privacy to support their sick and twisted practices. There would be an outcry over female genital mutilation, or making the kids smoke pot as part of a religious requirement, or teaching them to slaughter small animals in ritual sacrifice.

On the other hand, practices like making kids produce urine, heavy indoctrination into science-fantasy, all the way up to severe and prolonged whipping, are all considered acceptible "religious" pedagogy.

In many cases, I think "private" is fine and dandy. Kids wearing uniforms? If the religious order wants its children to resemble little members of the Scienlotogy Sea Org, that's their own stupidity to bear. But there are some things that should not be this kind of "private", and if God wants to smite eeevil secular society for enforcing its rules, let Him smite to His vindictive heart's content, as He will, anwyay.

--bkl