Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Graduation Ceremony

tater · 06-09-11, 11:34 AM

Can we at least get the other people who understand the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and State to admit that virtually any gun control is unconstitutional as August added?

It has generally been ruled that while religious groups can use a school facility (say after school is out), they cannot do so during a school function (obviously a public school here). The bad precedent, however is that Congress opens with a prayer, which frankly it should not.

The bastardized pledge of allegiance should similarly be reconstituted to the original wording, leaving out "under god." Note that the preacher that wrote the pledge did NOT have under god in there, but "indivisible." The under god wording was added later, in the 1950s (along with the "in god we trust" nonsense on money). The Founders would be appalled.

Anyone pro-prayer at graduation. Would you be cool with next year the prayer done by an imam shouting "alah'u akbar!"? How about some stoner kids that want to do a prayer to satan? How about a polytheist prayer to all the gods? Zeus? Apollo?

A can of worms better left closed. In addition, they are all explicitly against the first amendment.

06-09-11, 11:34 AM	#11
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Can we at least get the other people who understand the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and State to admit that virtually any gun control is unconstitutional as August added? It has generally been ruled that while religious groups can use a school facility (say after school is out), they cannot do so during a school function (obviously a public school here). The bad precedent, however is that Congress opens with a prayer, which frankly it should not. The bastardized pledge of allegiance should similarly be reconstituted to the original wording, leaving out "under god." Note that the preacher that wrote the pledge did NOT have under god in there, but "indivisible." The under god wording was added later, in the 1950s (along with the "in god we trust" nonsense on money). The Founders would be appalled. Anyone pro-prayer at graduation. Would you be cool with next year the prayer done by an imam shouting "alah'u akbar!"? How about some stoner kids that want to do a prayer to satan? How about a polytheist prayer to all the gods? Zeus? Apollo? A can of worms better left closed. In addition, they are all explicitly against the first amendment. __________________ "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine