Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp 1.2 08/01/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!daver From: daver@hp-pcd.UUCP (daver) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: School Prayer Amendment - postsc Message-ID: <16400009@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 22:52:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.16400009 Posted: Tue Sep 18 22:52:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 09:32:04 EDT References: <1483@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:ucf-cs:-148300:hpcvrd:16400009:000:575 Nf-From: hpcvrd!daver Sep 17 18:52:00 1984 >PPS. - I do not object to COMPLETELY SILENT time of prayer. >If a teacher could simply announce that the next minute will >be a minute of silence for prayer, meditation or private >reflection and let it go at that (not even an 'amen' at the >end much less "in _______'s name"), I don't see then how it >could be harmful? If a student used the time to work on homework or read or do something else, would that student be disciplined? If so, wouldn't this be establishing some sort of religion? If not, would this accomplish anything? Dave Rabinowitz hplabs!hp-pcd!daver