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"HeyBub" wrote:

Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:

which is of course exactly the same thought process that goes through
those good xians that demand prayer in school, don't think women can
make choices about their bodies or think the world will end if they
can't have public displays of mangers and xmas trees

Public prayer is efficacious. Jesus said "When two or more gather in my
name, I am with them."

But Jesus never said "go forth to your public school and pray", did he?


If two people can't pray together in a public school,
they might as well be praying to the closet.

Students pray in public schools all the time, most often just before a surprise
test. At all other times it is unnecessary, obtrusive, intrusive and arrogant.

Why is it that you make it sound like praying to the closet is a bad thing?


Judaism requires ten or more in
prayer to represent the community. I'm sure Islam has a similar requirement.
By prohibiting public prayer, in my view, the government school is
impermissably interfering with the free exercise of religion.

Except for that pesky 1st amendment thing of separating church and state.



I think women can make choices about their bodies! But choices have
consequences; if a woman CHOOSES to have unprotected sex, she shouldn't be
surprised when she gets pregnant.

But, the government, in its infinite wisdom, asserts the power to protect us
from our wrong choices.

did a fine, if somewhat long in occurring, job with slavery. OTOH, there were
those pesky people who imposed prohibition on us

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