One woman called in from Texas. She volunteers in a school district which is very poor with a lot of immigrants. Her concern was that permission slips written in English and brought home to parents who may not be able to read English will have no idea of what they are signing. That was just one of the interesting points which came up. They will have the show archived, tomorrow, if anyone cares to listen to it at www.npr.org.

I am not saying there should be prevention of religion, but I am saying we have to be sure we maintain freedom FROM religion, if that is our choice for our children.

As far as minority groups getting a boost, in most places they are so outnumbered, it is unrealistic to think they'd have the wo/manpower to reach all children and their parents who might be interested. It's a matter of sheer numbers, IMO.

I'd like to think it might be good in some way.

Thanks,

kat