Should prayer be allowed in public school?

Question

Congress opens each day with a prayer, yet the Supreme Court refused to allow public school classes to open with a prayer. What is the difference?

Answer 1

The whole idea of separation of Church and State has been stolen by the secular progressives on the far left...The founders' intent was not to restrict individual prayer, but to prevent a state sponsored religion. Anyone who has ever had a mid-term knows full well that prayers happen every day in schools. The real problem is that societally we have come to believe that it is better to silence millions than to 'offend' even one. For the same reason, there are idiot all over this great land who want to change our language, to eliminate any word which contains the letters m-a-n because it's 'insensitive to women, and those who insist on changing the name of every school sports team because a handful of Indians make a fuss. We should, instead, tell these people to deal with it and let individual freedom ring across the land once again.

Answer 2

yes.....There is nothing wrong praying at school...

I debate towards this issues...In supreme court, What is the point having a bible to swear the truth but nothing but the truth? Its no difference than say a prayer @ the wedding, when pray at the funeral, church and so does the school...I believe its a good intiative to domesticate the values of our human creator...GOD

Definition for prayer: The danger comes when we think we can ever be pure enough to deserve God's answer. That leads to pride. What's more, it becomes manipulation of the Almighty. We can empathize with peoples needs because we are acutely aware of our own. The danger comes when we think we can be pure enough to deserve a prayer
Petulant perfectionism is boldly contradicted by those times when we use to help others know while we still have problems in our lives.

Offering Kids the knowledge of nice happy day...SAFE..u know...encouragementable safety
or unless... Supreme Court should read Genesis 1:27-29.

If a convicted criminal asked to swear... what book do you use to classified the truth.. (1)..bible (2)prayer (3) your life...style. ....

Answer 3

There is prayer in schools! Students pray, "Lord, let me pass this test." Teachers pray, "Lord, keep that rotten kid home." Everyone prays, "Lord, get me through this day."

The trouble is, government-sponsored, involuntary (no matter how you word it, 7 year old kids aren't free to pray or not pray) prayer. Who leads it? My first grade teacher should have been a Protestant nun. Suppose you lived in Skokie, Illinois, and your kid was the only Christian kid in class, and when it was his turn to give the prayer, all the other kids walked out?

If you end a public prayer with "In Jesus's name" or "In his name" or "In your Son's name" you exclude me and all other Jews. If you don't you offend your own religion. So just leave it alone.

Answer 4

Congress is a seething cauldron of hypocrisy. You go to school to learn, not pray. Given that there are more and more immigrants around nowadays who may or may not be Christians prayer should be eliminated in all public schools. If they want, let them pray on their own time. The Kansas State Legislature once banned the Dali Lama from addressing the assembly because he wasn't a "Christian". I guess that means that if you're a Jew or a Muslim then don't bother running for office in Kansas because you won't be allowed into the legislature building. I guess the constitution of the U.S. doesn't apply in Kansas.

Answer 5

Separation of Church and State is the reason why there is no prayer in public schools. Religion is not part of government service. Thus, it is not required that prayers be made in public schools.

Answer 6

Yes it should be allow under the first amendment which give freedom of speech and the right to practice our religion. Also in the letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote about separation of church and state. He said flat out that it was not to keep the church out of the state but the state of the church. Funny how people do not know that I am not a Christian but I am a firm believer in tolerance and I think we should tolerate christians too P.S. It was probably not a kid that wrote that. It was probably an adult and then said a kid that wrote it

Answer 7

Yes,it should be allowed,but not required. It is everyone's right to pray whenever they chose to. Some schools are now setting aside time for the Muslim students to pray,the same time should also be allowed for children of all religions,if they chose to do so.

Answer 8

It is not a right decision. as all relgious are agreed at the point that Each good and Bad comes from Heaven due to some of its own jobs. so we should must have God Fearance and at the strat of each day and duty should pray God for Help and Peace.

Answer 9

My religion does not include the concept of prayer. Should 2 children be singled out in a school of 800 as "different" ?

If you want your children to pray, then set aside time for them to pray at home. But do not do anything that will result in a small number of children to be singled out. Because I guarantee that being singled out as different is about the worst thing that you can do for a child's development.

Aside from that, do not waste tax payers (my) money on something that is a pointless waste of time. If you want your children to pray, set aside time at home.

Answer 10

The difference is that Congress makes its own rules, which it enforces only on itself, but school prayers would be inflicted on children who have no power to choose whether or not to participate. Bottom line: prayer has no place in public schools. Private schools are free to do as they please.