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Originally Posted by MarchHare
My point is that just as you claim Christianity is important to Southern Baptists, so too is secularism important to Southern atheists. The majority does not get to trump the constitutional rights of the minority, even if allowing school prayer is considered very important to the religious people of the area.
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If the kids themselves start praying without consent from the school board/teachers whatever is considered the "government" in this case, there is nothing that is illegal about it though and no rights are being "trumped". yet, those that dont pray/believe would still be subject to it, or using a little bit of common sense, avoid by excusing themselves til its over. (See how that works?)
What I was saying is that those Baptists have every single right to pray on their own and as they wish (and believe me, they do)...its in the constitution that you seem so enamored with afterall, and again they tend to be staunch in what they do. No one can stop them either...freedom of speech etc as long as the school isnt endorsing it...right?
Again...I am in no way suggesting that anyone here did anything they were not entitled too but the results of what was done were both predictable and unnecessary. But cest lavie....the kid has to live with the decision when it all so easily could have been avoided.