We should be far more worried about religious indoctrination than this.
Religious indoctrination (like Creationism) comes from the community, and only exists in schools in places where the community enables it (like the South). Lobbying has no boundaries.
The organization seeks to rip apart secular school communities or convert all children, specifically ages 4-14 because they know children of those ages are least able to reason about what they're told (they would phrase it: "most easily saved"). They are prohibited from trying to brainwash kids during school, but the distinction between normal school clubs and Good News Clubs is essentially non-existent. They try to blur the lines between school and Good News Clubs, in some cases setting up for the club during classes, so that students associate the adults running the clubs with school. They use food, candy, games, and other fun activities to lure kids in. Kids who get indoctrinated end up pressuring other kids, outside of and even during school. This is acknowledged by the organizers of these clubs, and they're thrilled. Paraphrasing, "we can't reach kids who don't join the club, but we can't stop kids from reaching other kids."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04gTo31uLiw (Interview with the author of a book about these clubs)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13132235-the-good-news-cl...
Because it's not abuse.
Since when did it become socially acceptable to be bigoted in public? If you want to be intolerant at least keep your nastiness to yourself.
Don't you dare say that it doesn't happen or that it doesn't matter. Don't you dare.
Not all religions/versions of a religion are the same.
I acknowledge that an analogy is not always a particularly strong argument, but it was the first responce I thought of, and it seemed an acceptable responce to me.
Also, it might have made more sense to respond a few levels up, not sure what would have made the most sense to reply to.
My point is that religions seem prone to demonizing people as a quick and easy way to define themselves and maintain cohesion. Look at all the really nasty doctrinal splits through history.
Religions that push rules based on those appeals to authority into the political realm, and attempt to force others to live by them...
Believers who seek to proselytize under the flag of a false/unverifiable authority (typically explicitly supernatural) to non-believers...
Parents who pass down the mind-virus of such religions to poor defenseless children...
Labeling criticism of any of those bigotry is a panicked attempt to invoke the strong cultural taboo against narrow-minded discrimination, but the criticism and discrimination against those is hardly narrow-minded.