2006-10-23 15:21:05 · 9 answers · asked by don_steele54 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think that prayer in school is a freedom of speech issue. People should have the right to pray if they want to. I would not have, but that is me. I think the 10 Commandments should be displayed. They are good words to live by.
I believe in Christian values, but do not belong to a specific religion.
You will hear the phony seperation of church and state being mentioned. It is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. The First Amendment states that the government shall not establish a national religion nor prohibit the free exercise thereof. The court decision that outlawed prayer in school violates the Constitution. I look forward to it being overturned.
2006-10-23 15:25:51 · answer #1 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Prayer is in school. It is not within the power of any government or person to stop someone from praying. Every time a teacher gives a pop quiz or asks for homework to be turned in a host of prayers ascend to heaven. What the "prayer in school" christians want is not prayer it is publicly enforced display of personal dogma. That's a lot different than prayer.
2006-10-24 00:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by Concerned Citizen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a non-Christian (not an atheist) and I care. I don't want my children over exposed to 1 religion over another. They can make their own choice, if and when they feel the spiritual need, if and when the time comes.
Until then, Christians need to worry about raising their own children in whatever manner they see fit. They shouldn't be shoving their dogma down the throats of other parents children. It's just disrespectful and wrong.
2006-10-23 15:46:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am against prayer in school, the commandments are from the old testament, and do not belong to Christians, it's a few good suggestions on how to live in harmony
2006-10-23 15:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by curious115 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Prayer is allowed in schools. No one has ever stopped any student from praying. What has been ruled illegal, and rightfully so, is forced or structured and organized prayer. There is no place for religion or its symbols in the public domain.
The Founding Fathers crafted the US Constitution so as to purposefully exclude any mention or reference to God, Jesus, or Christianity. In 1797 the US Congress passed the following into law:
“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion”
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/barbary/bar1796t.htm
Furthermore:
JAMES MADISON: Christianity neither is, nor ever was apart of the common law. Feb. 10, 1814
The establishment of the chaplainship to Cong[res]s is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles: The tenets of the chaplains elected [by the majority] shut the door of worship agst the members whose creeds & consciences forbid a participation in that of the majority.”
JOHN TYLER: “The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent -- that of total separation of Church and State.
JOHN ADAMS: “How has it happened that millions of myths, fables, legends and tales have been blended with Jewish and Christian fables and myths and have made them the most bloody religion that has ever existed? Filled with the sordid and detestable purposes of superstition and fraud?” (Letters to F.A. Van Der Kamp 1809-1816)
THOMAS JEFFERSON: I join you [John Adams], therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character.”
“In every country and in every age the priest [any and every clergyman] has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: “My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvationand the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.” (to Judge JS. Wakefield, after Willie Lincoln's death)
MARY TODD LINCOLN: “Mr. Lincoln was not a Christian.”
ULYSSES S. GRANT: Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.” (Address to the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa, September 25, 1875)
2006-10-23 15:32:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't care if they're displayed in PRIVATE schools, but it's not fair to subject children of different beliefs in PUBLIC schools to that.
2006-10-23 15:24:57 · answer #6 · answered by Dee 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You've totally missed the entire idea of the constitution. People of faith especially should care, but not for the reasons you think............
2006-10-23 15:28:13 · answer #7 · answered by notme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't care: America is already a theocracy ... why not go the whole way??
2006-10-23 21:51:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i care...
most non-christians are not so shallow as to be offended by other peoples dilusions, but it just gets annoying
2006-10-23 15:22:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋