To: rwfromkansas; DonQ
I mean that in this case, it is WRONG TO HAVE A PRAYER ROOM because the minority religion is being advanced, not that the Supreme Court would be wrong in calling this unconstitutional. My point was that it is not unconstitutional to have a prayer room alone though, even though the Supreme Court says otherwise
To: rwfromkansas
It isn't wrong BECAUSE a minority religion is being advanced. The whole purpose of the First Amendment's religion clauses was to protect minorities - the majority religion doesn't need that kind of protection. The point is that the govt (including the public schools) is not supposed to subsidize ANY religion (not even a bland homogenized kind) which includes giving it chapels, etc. (The business about army & prison chaplains is different, because that's for people pulled away - more or less involuntarily - from their homes and home-congregations and the govt has to provide a substitute).
90 posted on
11/30/2001 7:56:11 AM PST by
DonQ
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