<p>The Religious Right is the fringe group with too much power. Their job is to restrict individual freedom as much as possible in the name of moral values. Here are the warning signs that the Religious Right has taken over your school:</p>
<li>There would be homework in the summer.</li>
<li>You’d have to take AP classes to the hilt or be an immoral infidel.</li>
<li>Being 3 seconds late for class lands you in detention.</li>
<li>Being 3 seconds late for class lands you in in-school suspension.</li>
<li>You’d always be buried in homework the way Florida was always flooded with water this year.</li>
<li>Students who score in the 1500s on the SAT would retake it in the hope of earning a perfect 1600.</li>
<li>Students who don’t aspire to attend an Ivy-level colleges are underachievers or lazy scumbags.</li>
<li>Your mission as a student would be to have the best-looking transcript, and any deviation from this would be considered an immoral act.</li>
<li>Anyone who isn’t all-state something, Varsity something, yearbook editor, newspaper editor, class president, or Nobel Prize winner is an underachieving lazy immoral scumbag.</li>
<li>You’d get busted if caught with Britney Spears CDs or other merchandise.</li>
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<p>and the Black Student Union must be shut down along with the Gay Straight Alliance and the Asian Culture Club but everyone should join Young Republican Club</p>
<p>...but you know. I go to a school run by the religious right. You have to have teachers that are trying to convert you to Christianity all the time, a Bible club, kids and teachers who go to church on wednesdays and sundays, ECs are planned around weekly Christian observations, and school lunches are not altered for other religions, oh and don't forget the Army/Navy/Marine/Air Force officer sitting in the lunch room to enlist you as you stand in line for the lunch you can't eat.</p>
<p>Yeah, well, she can't eat pork.
And I know for a fact that she & I both go to a school in the Bible Belt, so yeah, it's true. But not really to the degree that she described it. No one tries to convert me or anything. ...
And most of the time they have at least one non-pork item on the menu.</p>
<p>I have teachers trying to pull Pascal's Wager on me, and there are a lot here who believe abortion is wrong in the case of incest, but so what? If anything, their "missionary work" has kept me on the ball in regard to my justifications of my philosophy. You need to calm down and let them be the "big men," as it's obvious that a couple years down the road, you'll be laughing.</p>
<p>The religious right influences my school a lot - though mostly through organizations of crazy Republican parents, not so much the school faculty itself. </p>
<p>The parents try to ban books with "bad words" in them, have blocked Xanga from the school computers because it "compromises our safety", etc. Check it out their lair. </p>
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have blocked Xanga from the school computers because it "compromises our safety"
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<p>IMO, blocking Xanga is justifiable because it wastes student time. But the alibi isn't.</p>
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<p>And what does the following have to do with the religious right?</p>
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1. There would be homework in the summer.
2. You'd have to take AP classes to the hilt or be an immoral infidel.
3. Being 3 seconds late for class lands you in detention.
4. Being 3 seconds late for class lands you in in-school suspension.
5. You'd always be buried in homework the way Florida was always flooded with water this year.
6. Students who score in the 1500s on the SAT would retake it in the hope of earning a perfect 1600.
7. Students who don't aspire to attend an Ivy-level colleges are underachievers or lazy scumbags.
8. Your mission as a student would be to have the best-looking transcript, and any deviation from this would be considered an immoral act.
<p>Uhhh that list is pretty dumb. It doens't scream religious right to me at all. All the religious right at my school wouldn't want to take many AP courses because of the secular/neutral world view that they have. Also I know a lot of kids that shun putting academics before God...</p>
<p>I dunno, Christian-wise, I'm uber liberal. I'm fine with alcohol and a lot other "horrible" things... Politically I'm slightly left, but more of a centrist or libertarian. With relationships though, I prefer moderate conservatives... Liberals can get annoying.</p>
<p>But that's just one huge tangent for a pretty useless topic.</p>
<p>I'm really ascetic so I could be mistakened for a conservative on many fronts. I honestly would not mind the banishment of alcohol, Britney Spears CDs, dances, and other factors that are wasting society's time as I'm a firm pragmatist (though I wouldn't necessarily cite moral degradation as a reason). Even though I do consider myself a liberal and embrace change especially in the scientific direction.</p>
<p>Maybe I could call myself a pragmatic liberal. Or something along the lines of that. Though I'm frustrated with the US Political system so I'm also apolitical.</p>