I think that people believe something like this will 'fix' our society is one of the main reasons we have the problems we do. People have ceded personal responsibility to others- expecting that schools teach things that should be taught in homes. Expecting the government to force these things to happen.
When these things were taught in school, they were a reflection of society, not something that actually fixed it.
My sarcastic comment above aside, I have no problem with a community deciding this curriculum fits their society (as long as it doesn't push others out for different beliefs). What take issue with is people expecting this to fix anything when they can't even be bothered to do it at home.
If we continued to live these values in our homes, neighborhoods, and cities; if churches stopped being social clubs and started being guides to life; if fraternal organizations were again looked at as a way to make good men better and helped teach everlasting values, then we wouldn't be demanding the government do this for us. It would be there naturally because they reflected us.
I really am not crazy about the thought, in this day and age, of government run schools telling children what their religion means.
Nicely stated,
@ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.
More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.
All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.
We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.
You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.
But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.
It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.
People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...
Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.
We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.