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vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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I think anyone who would kill themselves over an election is better off dead.

Good riddance, psycho.
 
Tonio

Tonio

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rraley said:
In most instances, I do not understand why a person is so disgusted by the sight of a religious symbol in a court of Justice. The Supreme Court has an engraving above the bench of the Ten Commandents and many other courts and government buildings across the nation have the same thing. I have absolutely no problem with that. What I do think is excessive is the institutionalizing of prayer in public schools. First of all, there is no rule that prohibits prayer in school. I, for one, pray every day that I spend in Leonardtown High School; the thing is that I do not feel the urge to hop on top of a soapbox to do it. I am perfectly content doing in within the silence of my own heart. (Recall from Scripture, "whenever you pray, go into a room and lock the door."). If we were to institute school prayer, we would ignore the wishes of the minority of students who do not practice Christianity. Furthermore, if we were to decide that Christian prayer was all that we were to use, it would be difficult for us to even agree on that. I, as a Roman Catholic, would like it if we started our prayer with the Sign of the Cross and then say a Hail Mary. That wouldn't make too many Protestants happy I reckon. So school prayer, I believe, is a different issue than religious symbols in public places and is something that we should shy away from.
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Rraley, you're on the right track. The Supreme Court's engravings are intended to show the history of lawmaking. As I understand it, the Moses portrait doesn't list the Commandments, but instead has Roman numerals from 1 to 10. It's clearly not intended as an endorsement of a specific religious viewpoint. That's way different from Roy Moore's Commandments monument.

You're absolutely right that there is no law prohibiting all prayer in school. Teacher-led prayer is unconsitutional, while student-led prayer is not. Remember the "May God Bless Our Schools" poster at LHS? This was an entirely student-led activity. I say to those students, good on ya. So why did the LHS administration get all lathered up about it? Probably because they were scared silly of lawsuits. They didn't understand that it's not about banning religion in schools, which is what the Gary Bauers of the world want us to think. It's about the school staff not endorsing a specific religion. While I think the St. Mary's County superintendent should have provided better guidance to her employees about this issue, she and the board made the right call in letting the students put up their poster.
 
FromTexas

FromTexas

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Actually, the reason a lot of schools buckle up at the thought of Christian organizations in the school is very simple. I was discussing it with a principal I worked with one day (a church going woman), and she said it succintly, "If we let the Christian organizations we would like on campus, then we would have to let every other 'religious' organization have groups on campus they didn't like [i.e. even satanists, if they asked]". Its simple, they would be sued if they didn't allow equal access. So, they wouldn't allow they one group to practice on campus. They told them they had to practice off campus (However, student members of the group invited students on campus, made them aware of when/where, and sometimes offered rides to students who didn't have them -- work around).
 
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Tonio said:
You're absolutely right that there is no law prohibiting all prayer in school. Teacher-led prayer is unconsitutional, while student-led prayer is not. Remember the "May God Bless Our Schools" poster at LHS? This was an entirely student-led activity.
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Yes, it was, as was the prayer that my football team said every game before we strapped it up.
 
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