Personal growth unacceptable at Riverside
Students from Christian high schools are having a hard time getting accepted at the University of California, Riverside. The university deems some of the high school courses to be biased in favor of Christianity. "Religion and ethics courses are acceptable," says the university, "as long as they do not include among its [sic] primary goals the personal religious growth of the student." I'm not making this up.
posted by shane at 8:49 PM
5 Comments:
You say that as if it's a bad thing...
I see this kind of reporting as an example of serious spin. To claim that personal growth in "unacceptable at Riverside" is a distortion of their words. They merely say that this shouldn't be the primary goal of the course. And frankly, it shouldn't.
I've responded in more detail on my blog
Ryan, thank you for expecting the highest in journalistic standards from my blog. Though I must admit this blog is more of a repository for informational purposes and for my editorial and essayist pretensions than anything approaching the Platonic realm of objective news reporting.
Woefully, the Way-Out Forever Pattern tends to fall short of the many expectations placed upon it. I hope you and the other three people who might read this will understand and forgive your ever-vigilant scribe.
I suppose I did take a liberty, expressing not only my opinion, but that in an exaggerated way. And not the first time, mind you, to your scribe's utter shame! Perhaps it was a crude, but apparently not too unsuccessful attempt to gain an unsuspecting reader's attention. Perhaps "personal religious growth is not the primary purpose of a UC Riverside education, or even an acceptable prerequisite for one", though tongue-in-cheek, would be better.
Anyway, I think this issue deserves more seriousness than I've given it. It might ignite a whole new fire in the church vs. state conflagration, as the lawsuit seems to be unprecedented. I'll take a look at your blog. And of course, we can talk about this at breakfast sometime.
And to The Angry Frenchie, I suppose my answer is simply yes.
I for one would enjoy an ongoing discussion on what separation of church and state means and what the implications are for the role of the U.S. government in American society.
John from Ann Arbor
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