Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihlts!lied From: lied@ihlts.UUCP (Bob Lied) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: prayer in public schools Message-ID: <381@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 20:34:16 EST Article-I.D.: ihlts.381 Posted: Sat Mar 3 20:34:16 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 02:41:05 EST References: <1379@mit-eddie.UUCP> <726@ihuxq.UUCP> <7391@mgweed.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 18 > Has anyone read the bill?? Does it say that you must > pray in school, or that if you wish to you may... It is NOT illegal to pray if you wish. What is illegal is for the students to be led in prayer by someone in authority, leaving the students no choice in the matter (or leading them to believe they have no choice) -- thereby violating their freedom of religion. The proposed "voluntary" prayers are hardly acceptable, since the overpowering Christian stench in this country makes any attempt to pray to other than a Christian God a conspicuous event, and liable to anything from humiliation to censure. Not to mention the possibility that some choose not to pray at all (horrors!). Headed for the 9th circle of Hell, Bob Lied ihnp4!ihlts!lied