Quote:
Originally Posted by oilers_fan
If you can give me a legitimate way in which a simple "Our Father" might negatively affect his life, I'll concede.
|
How about the reasoning of Justice Anthony Kennedy who wrote the majority opinion in Lee v. Weisman? In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that prayers at public school graduation ceremonies in the US are unconstitutional -- a ruling that this school is illegally not following.
Quote:
|
What to most believers may seem nothing more than a reasonable request that the nonbeliever respect their religious practices, in a school context may appear to the nonbeliever or dissenter to be an attempt to employ the machinery of the State to enforce a religious orthodoxy.
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_v._Weisman