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From: Teresa L. Conaway (tconaway2@unl.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 06:17:28 PST

I've been an atheist for as long as I can remember, and I'm the last person to agree with anything the extreme religious right has to say. I'm in the front row of the cheering section everytime someone like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, Oral Roberts, or Jimmy Swaggert say something repulsive or get arrested. 
 
However, don't you all think we should concentrate on what we have in common -- we're law librarians, remember-- and worry less about what anyone's religious beliefs and practices might be?  The more we snipe at them for their religious beliefs, the more they try to make the entire country live according to those <adjectives deleted> beliefs. 
Of course, my biggest fear is that after you quiet the religious right, you'll decide that atheists, or Jews, or Buddhists, Quakers, or some other group whose religious beliefs you don't agree with shouldn't be allowed to post or recruit.
 
So please, just give it a rest.  Don't apply for the job if you don't want to learn to goose step.
 
Teresa Conaway
 
 
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Teresa L. Conaway
Reference/Electronic Services Librarian
Assistant Professor of Law Library
Schmid Law LIbrary
University of Nebraska College of Law
Lincoln, NE  68583-0902
402-472-8302
FAX: 402-472-8260
email:tconaway2@unl.edu
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And if they intend to make use of recruitment facilities at our Annual
Conference, the problem is only aggravated.  I think AALL needs to
revisit its policies on this issue.
 
Samuel Trosow
University of Western Ontario
 
James Donovan wrote:
> Indeed they may, legally, be able to discriminate till the cow
> comes home.  But by using the listserv to recruit they are
> making us the agents of their prejudice, no?  And that is
> something we can disagree with.
>
> james
>

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