[MEGoody]

Here, you have a state actor (school) apparently forcing a person to do something that is legitimately against as established relgious belief (going into a Church).

No one is forced to attend the graduation ceremony. They can just not participate and obtain the diploma in some other fashion.

[MeanWestTexan]

"No one is forced to attend the graduation ceremony. They can just not participate and obtain the diploma in some other fashion."

How silly.

By the same rationale, I guess high schools in Dearborn, MI can require all people who want to go to the official ceremony recite that "There is no God, but A!!! and Monutjob is his profit?!"

--- you know, because the graduation ceremony is "voluntary" and no one is forced to participate.

Schools in CA actually did this, BTW. There was a requirement for kids to go through religious sensitivity classes. One course made the kids dress like muzzies and recite that particular phrase. I recall the uproar on FR about imposition of religion.

Goose, meet gander.