(Ron) About atheist schoolteachers, public officials

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TILL
I had an experience that I can perhaps relate without appearing too
conceited.  I never tried to conceal my skepticism (and then atheism 
after I had progressed that far).  When I first started teaching college 
English, there was a staff member who was very cool toward me, but 
after several years her attitude changed.  After a few more years, she 
said to me one day that she felt that she should apologize for the way 
she had acted toward me in the past.  She explained (as I already 
knew by then) that she was a member of her church board and was a 
Sunday School teacher, and so she had been offended at having a staff 
member who was an avowed atheist.  She stumbled around for a while 
and then said that what she was trying to say was that she had been 
wrong and that she had come to realize that I was actually the most 
moral person she knew.  She too had learned that there is no truth to 
the commonly held belief that atheists are immoral.

JOHN HAMILTON
But Farrell, weren't we assured on the *best* of authority that we all
became atheists so we could lead sexually immoral lives without guilt?

RON
  At the state college I attended sexual immorality was quite acceptable 
and organized. These organizations were even funded by the school. If 
someone suggested that a teacher who promoted a certain sexual life 
style was immoral they would have been considered intolerant or 
homophobic. They couldn't just disagree with their choices. A teacher, 
on the other hand who promoted Christianity in their class, as in the 
public schools, would have been ridden out on a rail.

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