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To: ExTxMarine

Sorry, I was trying to say the following:
The teacher and the school board can and will stop an entire class from praying because they will all get into trouble for being disruptive. So, if you allow prayer at a certain time, or you don’t you are going to have a problem.

Which one should it be? And I have to say, like a few others, this sounds more like “restricting my rights to freedom of religion.”

Down here in Texas, we had a church group that was using the school lunch room as their sanctuary on Sundays. Someone filed a complaint that it was violating separation of church and state. It took three court rulings before a judge finally said, this is public property and if the public wants the land used for that, then so be it. He specifically stated, “...holding services in a public building does not establish a religion. But, denying the very people who paid to build this school the right to use the property as they see fit is expressly infringing upon their right to freedom of religion.”


54 posted on 01/22/2009 10:55:51 PM PST by ExTxMarine (For whatsoe'ver their sufferings were before; that change they covet makes them suffer more. -Dryden)
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To: ExTxMarine
“...holding services in a public building does not establish a religion. But, denying the very people who paid to build this school the right to use the property as they see fit is expressly infringing upon their right to freedom of religion.”

It is good to see that there is at least one Judge with common sense. Very, Very hard to find nowadays.

56 posted on 01/23/2009 7:19:21 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. - One of General Abram's men)
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