Consider the case of the young atheist:
He loans a friend a book. Then the boys' school administrators freak out because, in loaning another student a book about religion, the atheist somehow violated the "establishment clause."
Funny.
The kid has a great blog, and he tells his story much better than I could.
(His reading list is very good, by the by, if heavy on the R. Dawkins and Nietzche. But give him a break, he's young.)
I'm quite glad there are others in the world who support free thought. Actually, I just wrote a Sir Salman Rushdie tribute for Wishtank which veers off into a discussion about why we should never limit language/thought/questioning.
Basically, telling kids they can't question their faith is as ineffective as it is immoral. The kids--all of them, bible-thumpers, young Saudis bound for the Madrasah, or even little Dawkinses who think themselves Brights but have never really asked the Hard Questions about existence, consciousness, etc.--are going to find out that others don't necessarily agree with them.
And then they will probably blog about their findings. O Internet...
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