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Letter: Extremists shouldn’t have hand in policy

Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007 | 7:24 a.m.

Regarding George Will's Oct. 15 column in the Las Vegas Sun, "Schools of social work are forcing their agenda on students":

The answer to Mr. Will's questions - " Why are such schools of indoctrination permitted in institutions of higher education? And why are people of all political persuasions taxed to finance propaganda?" - is simple. You are witnessing more of the cultural polarization that is infusing this entire country.

How is what these schools are doing any different from what goes on at Oral Roberts University, Liberty University and other hard-right universities? Good grief, the Bush administration is as rife with policymakers (see the Justice Department's recent fiasco) trained in ultraconservative dogma as our social services organizations are with students trained in ultraliberal ideologies.

The solution in my mind is to let the extremes speak freely but prevent them from making policy. Give the middle ground authority to cherry-pick the good and ignore the bad from which to fashion sound governmental and social policy representing the majority of our citizenry.

Sidney H. Goodman, Las Vegas

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