If one woman can take prayer out of the school, then why can't 1 put God back in school.?

Question

Honestly I still don't understand it. Please answer as this has always baffled me.
All races please answer.

Answer 1

THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, do not rely on this for any purpose.

Allowing prayers in public school would be a violation of the First Amendment's establishment clause. Under the establishment clause, the government cannot take any action that advances, inhibits, or prohibits one religion over another. Any action must (1) have a secular purpose, (2) not have the effect of prefering one religion over another, and (3) not have be an excessive entanglement between religion and the state. Allowing prayers in public schoold would clearly advance religion.

In summary, allowing school prayers in PUBLIC schools would be contrary to the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Accordingly, they are prohibited as it should be since there is a separation of church and state.

Answer 2

One woman cannot take prayer out of school.

One person can bring the matter to court, and the the Courts can rule that prayer in school is unconstitutional.

It would take either a Constitutional Amendment, or a reversal by the US Supreme Court, to change the laws.

But linlyons and Franklin (above) are correct -- nothing prohibits individuals from praying in school, privately or one their own -- the law only prohibits the school from sponsoring or leading prayers.

And one person can start the chain of events causing those laws to be changed. But that would allow whoever happens to be in the majority to impose their religion on everyone else.

And I wonder if you would be quite so strong a supporter of prayer in school if the prayers chosen by the school happened to be prayers from some other religion, not yours.

Answer 3

i don't have self assurance that prayer, or faith of any form, could be in public faculties. As a Christian, i be attentive to a thank you to prefer at residing house, without dragging it into public circumstances. If non secular faculties prefer to have prayer, high quality. And if a public college pupil desires to declare a prayer privately, it extremely is high quality, too. yet to tension prayer upon non-believers, or upon believers who do no longer take place to sense like praying on the 2nd, is incorrect. So is endorsing prayer that favors one specific concept device over all others.

Answer 4

While I can appreciate your zeal for your religion, you have to look at it from all sides. If you were to have religion in school you would be legally obligated to offer prayers in every religion on the face of the planet (and trust me, people would test this issue). I sincerely doubt that the government would know where to begin as to where to offer the proper prayer for a religion such as say, Cao Dai.

While it might seem like a good idea to you to have religion in school, if you were to institute a specific religion it would effectively plunge the US into a religious war. With how many Muslims there are alone in the US (estimates range from 1.1 to 12 million), they would certainly be up in arms (perhaps quite literally). Also take into account that while Christianity may be the prevalent religion in most states, in states like Utah LDS is the majority, and I'm sure they wouldn't want to submit to whatever religion you happened to be.

In closing, with the growing number of Mexicans immigrating to the US it is quite possible that the major religion in America may become catholicism, again if that's not your religion I'm sure you wouldn't want that. In the end it's best to leave religion out of school because school is a place to learn objectively, not subjectively.

Answer 5

Sorry to be so late to the game. This is a case of be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the US. If you enact legislation to bring prayer and God back into the public classroom, you might want to prepare your children to practice Islam.

Here's another tidbit for you.

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/4/emw231351.htm

Christians and Pagans agree that the Wiccan community is growing at an exceptional rate, and is projected to be the Third Largest religion by 2012.

Break out the pointed hats and black cats.

Answer 6

Apparently the people who are for God are not as strong as those who are against God. Sad but I think it's true. On the other hand, I was flipping through the channels one day and stopped on this minister who was preaching to his congregation - I don't normally watch TV evangelists but something about this guy caught my attention. I listened for a little while and then he said something that I so agreed with. He said that he didn't care whether they had prayer in school or not because he had taught his children to pray whenever and wherever they needed to. Maybe teaching our children this lesson is a better solution after all.

Oh, and by the way...Separation of church and state was never meant to limit prayer in schools or a nativity on the capitol lawn at Christmas. Some of you might remember that this country was founded by people who were escaping religious oppression. They wanted the right to worship as they chose. How could we have been so complacent as to allow the constitution to be so twisted that it excludes one of the primary ideals of the founders of this country?

And Madeline Murray O'Hare's son denounced her and became a Christian, even wrinting at least one book in opposition of his mother.

If people don't want prayer in schools, why don't THEY go to private schools. Kind of like, we were here first.

Answer 7

I am white (you asked that all 'races' answer, so I am assuming you want to know the color of our skin and that is why I told you what I am).

No one can stop you from praying in school if you want to, even if it's a public school. The prayer issue you are referring to is about organized prayer/religion in public schools. If a person wants to pray, administration cannot stop them.

Answer 8

I am hearing both sides here and don't get where some think it is better not to have God and prayer in school. What they did is cater to the ones who don't believe and forgot the rest of us. Freedom of choice is only working for one side.
You should be able to do what's right for you, not everybody else.

Answer 9

It has always baffled me too. I do not subscribe to any particular religion per se. However, I do not see any harm in any of it.

Some people may disagree, but that is their right to do so.

Enjoy your day dear!

EDIT: It reminds me of the fight between smokers and non-smokers. One side is picked as right and they go with it. I would like to know who is in charge, probably Yahoo from the looks of things. They don't respond either.

Answer 10

Who is the one woman who took prayer out of school?