My father showed my this in the Dead Tree News:

At Stuyvesant, Stanley Teitel, the school’s principal, has given the group wider latitude, saying he trusts other students at the school to be able to make up their own minds about Jesus Day. The school also has Jewish and Muslim clubs. The members of Seekers were free to post fliers for Jesus Day around the school and hold their event in the cafeteria after school.

“It’s your decision as to whether or not you want to go,” Mr. Teitel said. “I’m not forcing you. It’s not part of your instructional day. They’re just advertising this event is occurring. We do many after-school events.”

Several years ago, after receiving a directive from the New York City Board of Education, the school reversed its policy of prohibiting students from holding Jesus Day on campus, he said. Before that, the students held the event on a street corner near the school, off school property.

“We were told we had to give everybody equal access,” he said.

Bullshit! Bullshit I say! Equal access my ass… when I was at Stuyvesant the Seekers, as I recall, had their club meetings in the school, but were disallowed from evangelizing on school property. What the hell is unequal about that? Evangelizing creates a hostile environment for those of us who are not Christian. I know it’s very hard for Christians to understand that… who wouldn’t be grateful to someone trying to save them?

Here’s the thing… other faiths are not something to be saved from. I don’t care if you’re Christian and you think that your faith is the only road to salvation. You can believe whatever you want. You’d be wrong, but I’m not going to tell you that every day.

Evangelism is not the same thing as free exchange of ideas. Not in an institution such as a public high school in any case. It’s not a matter of equal access. I was a member of the Jewish Culture Club at Stuyvesant and while we advertized our events and meetings, we did not go out and tell people “Whatever you believe is wrong! You have to be Jewish!”

It looks funny written out like that, and it would sound funny if I said it. Because it’s ridiculous, right? Imagine though, if you will, that the vast majority of the people in the world were Jewish, and you were not, and people were constantly telling you that you had to be Jewish. You just *had* to. It’s just wrong and ridiculous *not* to be Jewish. *You* are wrong and ridiculous because you’re not Jewish. That’s not about ideas. That’s not about discourse. That’s an attack on you.

I’m too annoyed to try to write anything more for right now. I’ll probably come back to this. Especially if anyone tries to argue with me. *hopeful*