To: BikerNYC
First off let me say I am not an advocate of school prayer, unless they try to outlaw children who wish to pray on their own or with a group on school grounds. The arguement you make about one religion being made superior to another however holds NO constitutional validity. Once again I remind you that a passage of law by congress or a state, with respect to the establishment of a religion or repression of an individual's right to practice it, is the minimum trigger for a first ammendment violation or invocation of the equal protection clause. Anything less is judicial activism.
To: DCBurgess58
The arguement you make about one religion being made superior to another however holds NO constitutional validity. Once again I remind you that a passage of law by congress or a state, with respect to the establishment of a religion or repression of an individual's right to practice it, is the minimum trigger for a first ammendment violation or invocation of the equal protection clause.
The state is passing a law that establishes a certain kind of religion (one that prays) when it mandates prayer in the schools. It is favoring that (or those) religions over others. You must be aware that it would be unlawful for the state to permit Christians to take off work from their state jobs on Christian holiday, but forbid Jews from taking off Jewish holidays. That would be favoring one religion over the other.
52 posted on
10/18/2001 6:33:06 AM PDT by
BikerNYC
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