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Originally Posted by pan6467
Now, you show me a school that on Monday the school prayer is led by Hindus, Tues. led by Christians, Wed. led by Jews, Thurs. led by Muslims, and Friday led by Buddhists and the whole cycle of ALL religions is recognized, then I won't have a problem.
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It's interesting how this morphed to school prayer!
As far as the quote above, I think religion has NO place in school from the top down. Kids and teachers can pray themselves on their own initiative, but any congregation of religious expression at school functions isn't appropriate for government-sponsored (public) school. Religious practice is most appropriately sponsored by a family and a community of faith, not by the administration of a public school. Prayer over the PA at a school sporting event is a deliberate administrative inclusion of every spectator who can hear it, a designated time and place for religious expression. I say it's not the time or the place.
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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Both (preventing school-sponsored prayer and censorship of school sponsored plays) are the imposition of one group's moral code on others that may or may not agree with it.
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I added what is in the parentheses in the above quote, which is the reference directly copied from the post it came from.
I don't equate constitutional protections with moral codes. "Legal" does not equate or even imply "moral", and that is a good and essential thing in a democracy. We've talked about PA prayer at football games and the cancellation of two plays by a superintendent. One was decided by appellate and Supreme Courts, and the other was decided unilaterally by a single government worker who admits people compare him to Joe McCarthy.