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	<title>Comments on: Not the Turkey I Expected to Talk About Today</title>
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	<description>Keeping the Radical Right at Bay</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>by: FreeThinker</title>
		<link>http://www.bay-of-fundie.com/archives/78/not-the-turkey-i-expected-to-talk-about-today#comment-49</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Thanks for raising awareness of this eerie US/Turkey comparison.  I think some of these Turkish traditions are keeping them from EU membership.  Let's hope the EU does not relax their secular standards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for raising awareness of this eerie US/Turkey comparison.  I think some of these Turkish traditions are keeping them from EU membership.  Let&#8217;s hope the EU does not relax their secular standards.
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		<title>by: The Watcher</title>
		<link>http://www.bay-of-fundie.com/archives/78/not-the-turkey-i-expected-to-talk-about-today#comment-48</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>That is extremely annoying. I'm doing the best I can to help make the fundies lose big time, but it's not easy! Their illogic boggles the mind!

There are a couple of points I disagree with you on, however. I've long been a proponent of "if you don't like it, ignore it." I say it to the fundies all the time every time they try to ban Harry Potter, Desperate Housewives, that book that doesn't make a value judgement about Cuba, or the latest book that we need to ban. So if this book is just sitting in a school library, I don't want to get it thrown out. I don't want to be as bad as the fundies. Teach evolution, yes, but don't censor the opposition. My stance is not so weak that it will fall under the ridiculous assertions of fundies. So let the kids read it if they want. Chances are, if they're looking for a book on creationism, we're never gonna reach them anyway.

Second, I also agree with school sponsored religious clubs. I'm not so sure about actual cash funding, but I don't really see the harm in letting students gather and share faith at school. Everything else on your list, though, is pretty spot-on.</description>
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<p>There are a couple of points I disagree with you on, however. I&#8217;ve long been a proponent of &#8220;if you don&#8217;t like it, ignore it.&#8221; I say it to the fundies all the time every time they try to ban Harry Potter, Desperate Housewives, that book that doesn&#8217;t make a value judgement about Cuba, or the latest book that we need to ban. So if this book is just sitting in a school library, I don&#8217;t want to get it thrown out. I don&#8217;t want to be as bad as the fundies. Teach evolution, yes, but don&#8217;t censor the opposition. My stance is not so weak that it will fall under the ridiculous assertions of fundies. So let the kids read it if they want. Chances are, if they&#8217;re looking for a book on creationism, we&#8217;re never gonna reach them anyway.</p>
<p>Second, I also agree with school sponsored religious clubs. I&#8217;m not so sure about actual cash funding, but I don&#8217;t really see the harm in letting students gather and share faith at school. Everything else on your list, though, is pretty spot-on.
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