Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Graduation Ceremony

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Originally Posted by Castout

Prohibiting people to pray in public is restricting their belief even banning them.

No one should be forced to pray as no one should be forced not to.

Then people should have the right to pray silently and without calling attention to it. That's a win win situation

The prayers get to pray, those who don't wanna don't have to hear/see it.

Unfortunately, that is not what many of these theists want. They want it to be a big public thing. They want things to stop so that everyone notices that they are praying (or pretending to).

A person who is secure in their faith can pray in a crowded room and no one will ever notice. Why does it have to be a public "hey pay attention to what I am doing" thing?

That's what I don't understand. Why does praying need to be a formal part of a ceremony?