Imagine sending your children off to their public school. You think they are learning about math, history, spelling, etc.
Only later in the year do you accidently learn that each and every morning the teacher takes her Holy book from her desk and teaches the class a prayer. As they begin to learn it, they are required to recite it with her on a daily basis.
Through the year your child learns more prayers and can recite many by heart. This is the normal beginning of their school day. Say the Pledge, recite whicever prayer the teacher (holding the Holy book) picks for the day.
Would you be OK with that? It was done in the US for many, many years. It was done without regard for the beliefs of the students or their parents.
It was then (rightly) stopped and ever since Christians by the thousands have been claiming discrimination or that their god is being "removed" from the schools.
2007-09-20
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