Christians: Morning prayer has NEVER been banned in ANY school ! Stop acting persectued.?

Question

Prayer can be done ANYWHERE at school. Your supposed to be having PRIVATE time with God, not trying to get attention from MASS Prayer circles.

Answer 1

if prayer is banned in someone's school, they need to contact someone. removing prayer is not constitutional.... but 'making' someone pray is unconstitutional. the government agencies cannot force any religion on any persons, that is what seperation of church/state really means... but they cannot remove it... it takes away constitutional rights ... while christians and other religions continue to be persecuted in various ways, I am thankful that some religions are not being taught as 'right or wrong' in our schools. my kids continue to hold bible studies in school and pray together before sports and other activities....

Answer 2

There is *constitutionally protected prayer* in public school.s

It is always a good idea to go to the source in things like this - which would be the Department of Education in this case.

Here's what is so (as opposed to the less-than-honest stuff people get told all the time by people with an agenda):

http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/religionandschools/prayer_guidance.html

Page down to the section that reads:
Applying the Governing Principles in Particular Contexts

You'll see that there is TREMENDOUS opportunity for prayer, for bible study, for student religious groups in public schools.

Makes you wonder why there are people out there telling LIES about prayer in schools. Could it be they have an agenda that doesn't stand up to scrutiny?

There may be individual cases in which someone misunderstanding the *actual* law on this prevents or impedes what is legal. In those cases, the ACLU should be contactred at once, as they are MORE than happy to uphold the legal free religious expression of students in public schools.

Answer 3

Schools cannot conduct prayer - Students can form any kind of prayer circle or pray at anytime during school. The students can discuss religion, the students can hand out tracts, the students can pray for others in the halls, but the school staff cannot do it.

before the 1970s, we used to pray the lords prayer and the pledge of allegience every morning as a classroom. This was before we became afraid that we might offend some of the immigrants who moved here and didnt worship the same way.

if 100,000 Christians (or any other religion) moved to Saudi Arabia do you think they would stop having call to prayer because it would offend the christians? Why has america been so spineless as to piss away our heritage and moral belief system that our county was founded on?

Answer 4

You're quite incorrect. There have been numerous instances where Christian students' right to free speech and religion have been violated by schools. While the Constitution doesn't prohibit Bible reading or prayer, unfortunately, many school officials think it does: this is the root of the problem.

Here's a brief from the American Center for Law & Justice that mentions only a few of these cases:

http://www.aclj.org/media/pdf/040817_JAY_student_rights.pdf

Additionally, the problem got so bad that the ACLJ published this paper summarizing Christian students' rights to freedom of religion while in school:

http://www.aclj.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=419

And here's an article about a Maryland girl who was prohibited from reading her Bible at school during recess:

http://www.crosswalk.com/1432329/

You might want to reassess your understanding of this issue.

Answer 5

I concur. Prayer of any faith (to my knowledge) has never been banned in any school anywhere in the US.

Organized or classroom prayer HAS been banned in public schools because it's a violation of church and state and religious freedom and all that.

You want to practice your private religious beliefs in school? The blood-soaked shrine that you just ignited may conflict with a few health and fire codes, but otherwise I have no quarrel as long as you're quiet about it and aren't disturbing the lesson for everyone else.

Answer 6

Perhaps you mean on an individual basis. Corporately it is not permitted.
An individual person can pray at anytime.
However, I am glad that it is banned.
You see, if it were permitted and allowed, little Johnny may pray as a believer in Jesus. Little Mary the next day would pray to Satan. Little Alice would pray the next day to the snake god.
What makes you think that everyone is going to pray to the same god?

Answer 7

My kid's school doesn't allow morning prayer.

Answer 8

If a group of students decides to pray together, how is bothering everyone else? I still do not understand.

Answer 9

yes, you are right..i am a Christian and i have never been persectued? well, i think some people just want to whine..but i agree with most of what you say...have a nice day

Answer 10

when I went to school we never even had prayer