need advice re praying in school

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Danzig188

as i said, it's not the problem about prayer, it has to do with the fact it was declared unconstitutional--and i don't think my children should be used to defy a supreme court ruling.

i probably will let it go for now. it it bothers me that it's happening, but i do know it would open a tremendously huge can of worms. and of course my kids would be the one to get the grief, not me--so much.

thanks to everyone for their comments, i appreciate you chiming in.

and rupe, most cities don't require you to sit at a red light later at night due to carjacking concerns...most places set them to go to flashing lights at night.

i just happen to get a bit burned when people try to pull a majority rules, so we're right thing..which is what this is, the majority doesn't rule, the constitution is supposed to. it's a pet peeve of mine!

thanks again everyone.

The funny thing is that I'm not sure that's it's necessarily unconstitutional. You know how those things work with the Supreme Court. One court may rule that something is unconstitutional and then another court may disagree. We may even see Roe v Wade overturned. I doubt it will happen but it is possible.

Anyway, depending on who happens to be sitting on the Supreme Court, you may get a totally different interpretation of what is considered Consitutional. There are plenty of judges who would not find it unconstituional if a short period was set aside at public schools for people to pray if they choose to. Whether prayer is allowed in public schools is not a cut and dry thing. If students were being forced to pray and forced to recognize a certain religion, then this would clearly be uncostitutional. But if students are given a choice, then that is very debatable as to whether that would be unconstitutional. In my opinion, that would definitely be permissable under our Constitution and I know that plenty of judges would agree with me.