Vince
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Alot has changed in 30 years I guess, but then even in church they didn't used to have girls helping the priest serve Mass. Alter boys were all they had back then.Both my sister and I were accepted to a very good Catholic school (ended up not going, though) and they never asked for proof of anything related to our worship studies. You're right about Communion, I'm sure, but the Catholic schools I've come into contact with I don't think are as strict. I have a couple Jewish friends who attend an all-girls Catholic high school because it's a good school, not for their faith. Maybe those schools are more lax, though.
Anyway, I digress. I'm just saying that claiming Obama is Muslim because he attended an Islamic-run school is like saying that I'm a practicing Episcopal because I attended Episcopalian middle school and served as an acolyte at Wednesday morning chapel at school. *shrug*
I do agree with you that he shouldn't worry what people think about his religious history and just get it all out in the open, because I agree, I think it breeds more suspicion of his religious affiliations, past and present, if he doesn't discuss it. But I also don't think that the schools someone attended between the ages of six and ten should brand their spiritual identity years later.
(Obama also attended Catholic private school while he was Indonesia, btw.)