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A Few Questions
For Superintendent Brown
Ken Petersen

• Reference: The Divisive Message And The Golden Rule (Report)

From: "Ken Petersen"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Subject: Thanks etc.
Date: October 18, 2001 9:02 PM

To Superintendent Kevin Brown:

The "God Bless America" signs that I see in my city are only displayed on private property (including businesses). If I were to see them at my children's school, I would demand they be removed. It goes against everything we stand for in the United States. My children attend school for a secular education. Religion and God are personal issues that are not the responsibility or mission of the public school system.

A few questions:

• Which God is your district endorsing to bless America?
   
• Will your district stop teaching its children about the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America?
   
• Do you expect that the children in your district will be more patriotic now that you have requested God to Bless us?

Ken Petersen

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