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Thread #45700   Message #676732
Posted By: Jim Dixon
26-Mar-02 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Fuck-All tae dae wi' music ljc (bawdy)
Subject: RE: Fuck-All tae dae wi' music ljc
The Christian right is forever misrepresenting the law to make it appear that they are victims. The law does NOT say you can't pray in public schools. (Which is not to say there has never been a school official somewhere who has misunderstood the law and incorrectly TRIED to prevent students from praying in school.)

What the law mainly says is that teachers and administrators in public schools can't LEAD prayers or order that prayers be said. But if students on their own initiative decide to pray, there's nothing you can do to stop them. (Unless they're doing it in a disruptive way somehow, but you wouldn't want to do that anyway, would you?)

But if you ask me, there are plenty of good RELIGIOUS reasons not to pray aloud in public schools.