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To: Cboldt
It's a recapitulation of the religion clauses in the 1st Amendment.

So what do you divine from that? Is she for or against prayer in the schools, or placing a creche' in the public square? Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance?

Recapitulation of the 1st Amendment? "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

"No one should be able to oppressively require a student to participate in religious activities against their will, but if a student on his or own chooses to express him or herself in religious terms, that should not be prohibited."

I have a hard time equating the above statement with a recapitulation of the 1st Amendment. What does it mean "chooses to express him or herself in religious terms?"

240 posted on 10/26/2005 11:04:16 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
So what do you divine from that? [The 'establishment/exercize' phrase in Miers' speach]

Not much, except she seems to be tolerant of individual exercize of (or shunning of) religion in a school setting.

What does it mean "chooses to express him or herself in religious terms?"

I take that as an overt display or utterance. But she balances that against "oppresively require a student to participate in religious activities against their will."

You do raise good questions about her 1st amendment jurisprudential philosophy. I haven't dug that far in, in that area, but am biased toward thinking she may actually be a traditionalist in that regard.

247 posted on 10/27/2005 4:27:10 AM PDT by Cboldt
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