[victim soul]

AAAmen.AAAAAAAAAAmen. AAAAAAAAAAAmen. Amen. Amen.

[Khepera]

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[WriteOn]

Get out of the government schools! Exodus! The government schools are the problem -- not just their Godlessness.

[Fiddlstix]

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[teletech]

Prayer has the power to move mountains! Pray when happy, pray when sad, pray when needs arise but mostly pray without ceasing! God knows what we need before we ask BUT He DOES want us to ask. Jesus stands at the door and knocks, will you let him in? PRAY!

[ConsistentLibertarian]

If Satanists said something like "Sweet Satan, you sucked the life out of God's only Son and you Rule the Earth and we Worship you Forever Oh Dark one. May you give us homosexual sex and drugs and rock and roll ..." Blah blah blah. That would be OK in school too? Just trying to get clear on what sort of principle you want to defend.

[Cleburne]

What ahokey title. These kids aren't attemopting a melding of church and state-they merely ask for a brief period of silence, for cryin' out loud! A welding of church and state would be when the state amndates that all the students must attend mass or something, and we all must pay a tax to the church, and that no other religions are allowed, or at least not officially protected.

[Vercingetorix]

"Mr. Graves and Harvey's aldermen have pressed their case in light of the Sept. 11 attacks, and the subsequent national embrace of public prayer."

The first thing enemies do upon commencing hositilities is to exchange vices. Let's hope our secular nation does not devolve into a theocracy ruled by self-righteous Bible Thumpers who will be every bit as authoritarian as the Taliban given half the chance.

People who imagine they can talk to God are delusional. But people who claim that God talks back to them are either insane and dangerous or crafty con artists and dangerous. People in power who imagine that they have a book of instructions written by God tend to be intolerant of those who don't follow the instructions to the letter.

The separation of Church and State should be maintained absolutely. Otherwise the dominant religious group will monopolize the state institutions, come to think of itself as the owner of those institutions and eventually impose its collective will with the same methods the Taliban used. If kids want to pray publicly in groups they are completely free to go to the Church of their choice on their own time.

[Tom Pain]

Harvey, IL, is a largely black suburb of Chicago. It has a reputation as an unsafe place. The south suburbs of Chicago tend to have large percentages of black residents. And, also tend to have crime problems.

If the ACLU gets involved here, it runs the risk of being labelled "RACIST".

[rwfromkansas]

Keep up the righteous fight against the evils of those that would stop God from being exalted in schools, warriors.

[Verax]

Amen!

Fight on brothers!

"Let he that has no sword sell his garmet and buy one." - Jesus Christ

[4CJ]

What "church-state" division? Where in the Constitution does it say that? It doesn't? Where is the admonition that government must be comprised of atheists? There's not one? Who is included in the phrase "We the People..."? - just atheists? If a religious person's house is on fire, can government funded emergency personnel fight the fire? Can people continue to pray for our leaders, or is that now illegal?

Does anyone think that this is what John Witherspoon intended? The Reverend John Witherspoon that signed the Declaration of Independence and ratified the Constitution. Along with him were Abraham Baldwin (a chaplain), John Langdon and Charles Pinckney (founders of the American Bible Society), James McHenry (founder of the Baltimore Bible Society), Rufus King (founder of the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society), Alexander Hamilton (formed the Christian Constitutional Society), and numerous others.

I'm sure that they wanted atheists running America. < /sarcasm >)