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Originally Posted by meembo
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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I think that drama is appropriately sponsored by a family and a community of artists, not by the administration of a public school. People should be happy that any plays are allowed to be done on school grounds. It isn't some right to be able to perform whatever you feel on schol grounds.
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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.
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Oh, I guess I forgot that the Supreme Court is infalliable. They never make mistakes, right?
What I am talking about is the hypocrisy of supporting banning one form of personal expression, but getting angered over another. It seems the people who really make the biggest deal about religion are liberals. Religion is just another form of thought and expression, no different from others.