"A high school student loans a friend, another high school student, his copy of The God Delusion. Two things happen: the friend's father loses his cool and complains to their school, and a school administrator suggests that this was an establishment clause violation. And this was at a school that allowed the Gideons to distribute bibles in the parking lot!
At least the lunatic father finally returned the book.
It's ironic. I get accused of being some kind of deranged militant atheist, yet when my kids got handed tracts and evangelical comic books and were asked to attend church and sunday school with their friends (and all of those were reasonably common events), I just gave 'em the thumbs up, read the comics myself (they were uniformly terrible), and shooed 'em out the door on Sunday morning. Yet scrubbing the information their kids are allowed to see is common practice among the religious — it's the primary reason for Christian home schooling, for instance..."
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