John:

As far as I know, noone has been forbidden from praying. The law at least at the Constitutional level is against the establishment of any religion or religous sponsorship by the government. This mandate is called "the separation of Church and State", colloquially. It is NOT called "the separation of religion and individual".

The issue is that our government must NOT support one religion or another in any way the encroaches on the freedom of individuals to worship as they choose.

I grant you that the current Residency is striving mightily to weasel the issue and duck the principle. But that is the source policy.

IO highly concur that an education in the nature of ethics and philosophy would be a wonderful thing to require of high schools.

I am sure there are those who would whine about that too!! "We don't need no stinking Greek philosophers -- buncha furriners!! I get all the fee-losofy I need from this here Aramaic testamentary!!"

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