WDYS- YES- I missed that part about the "religious belief" system from TeacheroftheDeaf...that pisses me off now too.
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I'm also Jewish <as you know, WDYS, but this second line is more generally directed as part of the thread>> and I THANK and bless my parents for having the foresight to let me choose my religious path, including whether or not as a child I wanted to go to synagogue. Over the years I also became involved in UU'ism while still remaining <after having re-investigated Judaism in college> strongly, but not religiously, Jewish. Children -DO- have a right to learn about and choose their religion or belief system.
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and the whole thing you have going, TeacheroftheDeaf, reeks of audism, so much so that you can't see it. That is part of what audism is about, just like with racism, sexism, homophobia and other injustices.