[GregNH]

At least AP didn't cite the "separation of church and state" clause.

[pnh102]

I had posted in a previous thread that the parents should have a private graduation ceremony. But you know what? Screw this! The whims of a single student shouldn't ruin the graduation ceremony for everyone else.

And how hard is it for a person to sit through a 2 minute (at most?) long prayer? Even my infant can do that.

We all know there is something wrong with the student who brought this challenge. Perhaps it is time for us to mock these people for being the insecure weaklings that they are.

[HighWheeler]

Oh, but senior student Eric Workman won’t have a problem when the whole school “idol”izes their quarterback or basketball center during commencement.

[Sacajaweau]

We have to be tolerant of every fag around but folks have trouble being tolerant with any Christian act.

[Arthur McGowan]

When is someone going to have the cojones to defy a judge and just go ahead and say a prayer?

[Tax-chick]

They should hold the prayer anyway. What’s a judge going to do, shut the school down? FReep ‘em.

[tal hajus]

I”m a gay agnostic, and I say let them pray.

[wintertime]

Of course the solution to all of these endless citizen fights over government school policies is to have complete separation of school and state. Close down the government schools!
Let's examine the two possible decisions that a government school worker can make, and hopefully conservatives will see that a religiously neutral position is impossible:

1) The government school could allow school prayer. Well...Any government powerful enough to allow Christian prayer at a government graduation is also powerful enough to allow Muslim or Wiccan prayer. It might even allow equal amount of time for the atheist to expound on the nonexistence of God. Would any thinking conservative be surprised if this happens?

2) It can forbid school prayer. This isn't religiously neutral either because it teaches the students that religion is so controversial ( or shameful) that it must be hidden away from polite society as if it were a bathroom activity. This is hardly religiously neutral either.

Fundamentally, prayer at graduation is merely one example among thousands in which government schools must make a binary decision. One group of citizens has their First Amendment Rights trashed and the other has government using tax dollars to establish their religiously non-neutral worldview.

Axiom: It is impossible to have a religiously neutral education. It is impossible to have a religiously neutral government education. ALL government schools promote and establish the religious worldviews of some citizens and trash those of others.

[Nuc1]

A Federal Judge doesn’t the Constitutional authority to stop a school prayer.