ignorance isn't blissful, it's sad

This letter was printed in my local newspaper this morning:

Anti-Christian police keep student from homework

While waiting in his doctor's office recently, my 11-year-old son decided to work on his homework which included math and studying a Bible verse since he attends a Christian-based school. He says to me, "Hey Dad, let's study my Bible verse." But before I can respond he gets this funny look in his eyes and says, "Oh wait, we better not read the Bible here ... somebody might sue us."

Before I had a chance to get over my surprise he says, "But I guess it would be OK if it was another religion."

The anti-Christian, left-wing, politically correct, thought-police have succeeded in making another young man question his right to pursue his faith in the matter he sees fit to do so.

[name and address redacted]

I don’t know which is worse: that an eleven-year-old has already been brainwashed by religious paranoia, that his father doesn’t know enough to correct him, or that they gleefully trumpet their unfounded fears in public.

Their Christian persecution complex is as sad as their passive-aggressive ignorance of our (secular) Constitution’s principle of religious freedom, and the (liberal) ACLU that stands ready to defend it. Fantasies about left-wing PC thought police demonstrate how much reality is obscured by panic in their minds. I would recommend finding a school that teaches facts instead of fear.

update (8/5 @ 6:55pm):
Someone else had essentially the same criticism:

Hesitation to read Bible is just right-wing paranoia

If an 11-year old boy truly believes that he can be sued for reading the Bible in a doctor's waiting room, then his civics teacher and parents have failed him. I wouldn't worry about "anti-Christian, left-wing thought police." I'd worry about his paranoid, right-wing teachers and parents instead.

[name and address redacted]