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They have the right to pray anyway.
gallant - What is a "religious avocation"? - line 2 of the OP? Looking up "avocation", I see "hobby" - that doesn't seem to be what you mean.
Kevin - "a place for the promotion of a specific religion in school, and that is in the private sector." What do you mean by "private sector"? - I would have thought you meant a church of some kind, or some other place of worship; which isn't the same as the private sector.
It was a little girl saying a prayer.
There are no prayer police in school, nor should there ever be. A preschool student opted to say a little prayer. What do you propose should be done? How does this show that religion is being "established" in the school?
Should the preschooler be locked up? Should she have been hustled off the stage? Bullwhipped? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAPPEN to CHILDREN who opt to publicly pray at school?
It was a little girl saying a prayer.
There are no prayer police in school, nor should there ever be. A preschool student opted to say a little prayer. What do you propose should be done? How does this show that religion is being "established" in the school?
Should the preschooler be locked up? Should she have been hustled off the stage? Bullwhipped? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAPPEN to CHILDREN who opt to publicly pray at school?
(My bold)
Read the embedded URL - it says the little girl was following the teacher's instructions.
Sure there are "prayer police" in the school. There was a - presumably - certified, licensed teacher, with a valid TX teaching license. She should have known better than to prod her little charge into leading/reciting a prayer. She may have slept through her annual orientation - noted previously, but she's still responsible for not inciting a riot, & for following church/state/public school precedent, not for haring off on her own to get her ISD into potentially expensive & unnecessary litigation.
A preschool student - once she's cross-examined, under oath - if that's even possible - probably can't form intent, as the law understands the term. Thus "opted" is mere weasel language, & I'm disappointed to find God Almighty hiding behind a doubtless cute little tyke in a jumper.
The teacher should never have prompted this child to insert a prayer, & certainly not a sectarian prayer @ that. The time & place for prayer was @ the local church, etc. By invitation - even if it was a blanket invitation to everyone @ the "graduation".
What is it about prayer, specifically christian prayer, that so terrifies athiests and others without some other religious avocation? Why is it that even the whispered hint of christian murmurings sends these loonbats streaking off to litigation? What are they afraid of? Words? And yet, they continue to demand that their "faith" be honored and respected.
Atheist group, angry mom go ballistic over prayer at pretend preschool commencement
It was a little girl saying a prayer.
There are no prayer police in school, nor should there ever be. A preschool student opted to say a little prayer. What do you propose should be done? How does this show that religion is being "established" in the school?
Should the preschooler be locked up? Should she have been hustled off the stage? Bullwhipped? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAPPEN to CHILDREN who opt to publicly pray at school?
What is it about prayer, specifically christian prayer, that so terrifies athiests and others without some other religious avocation? Why is it that even the whispered hint of christian murmurings sends these loonbats streaking off to litigation? What are they afraid of? Words? And yet, they continue to demand that their "faith" be honored and respected.
Atheist group, angry mom go ballistic over prayer at pretend preschool commencement
I have to wonder why the woman, a self described Christian, would complain to the Freedom from Religion Foundation and not the ACLU.
What is it about prayer, specifically christian prayer, that so terrifies athiests and others without some other religious avocation? Why is it that even the whispered hint of christian murmurings sends these loonbats streaking off to litigation? What are they afraid of? Words? And yet, they continue to demand that their "faith" be honored and respected.
Atheist group, angry mom go ballistic over prayer at pretend preschool commencement
I have to wonder why the woman, a self described Christian, would complain to the Freedom from Religion Foundation and not the ACLU.
I wonder how these christians would feel if a couple of Satanists prayed to the Dark lord to take their souls for a concubine?
I don't think they would appreciate it......
Two things in terms of the OP.
1.) as a private school they are allowed to have prayer if they so choose.
2.) as a customer of the service the mother is fully entitled to complain to the school board if she is unsatisfied with the product that she is getting and or entitled to take her business elsewhere.
I don't really see the big deal here.
gallant - What is a "religious avocation"? - line 2 of the OP? Looking up "avocation", I see "hobby" - that doesn't seem to be what you mean.
Kevin - "a place for the promotion of a specific religion in school, and that is in the private sector." What do you mean by "private sector"? - I would have thought you meant a church of some kind, or some other place of worship; which isn't the same as the private sector.
A matter of semantics. "Curiously enough, vocations antonym, avocation, is also used as a synonym appropriately enough, because one persons avocation is anothers vocation though it more often applies to a hobby."
Vocation vs. Avocation
Two things in terms of the OP.
1.) as a private school they are allowed to have prayer if they so choose.
2.) as a customer of the service the mother is fully entitled to complain to the school board if she is unsatisfied with the product that she is getting and or entitled to take her business elsewhere.
I don't really see the big deal here.
She didn't go to the School Board.
She went straight for the jugular.
gallant - What is a "religious avocation"? - line 2 of the OP? Looking up "avocation", I see "hobby" - that doesn't seem to be what you mean.
Kevin - "a place for the promotion of a specific religion in school, and that is in the private sector." What do you mean by "private sector"? - I would have thought you meant a church of some kind, or some other place of worship; which isn't the same as the private sector.
A matter of semantics. "Curiously enough, vocations antonym, avocation, is also used as a synonym appropriately enough, because one persons avocation is anothers vocation though it more often applies to a hobby."
Vocation vs. Avocation
A call out to koshergirl, who does not receive private responses to her private messages: I'm curious why you would neg rep my response to hoosier?
A matter of semantics. "Curiously enough, vocations antonym, avocation, is also used as a synonym appropriately enough, because one persons avocation is anothers vocation though it more often applies to a hobby."
Vocation vs. Avocation
A call out to koshergirl, who does not receive private responses to her private messages: I'm curious why you would neg rep my response to hoosier?
Sorry!! I send my most abject apologies, lol...
A call out to koshergirl, who does not receive private responses to her private messages: I'm curious why you would neg rep my response to hoosier?
A call out to koshergirl, who does not receive private responses to her private messages: I'm curious why you would neg rep my response to hoosier?
Sorry!! I send my most abject apologies, lol...
Thanks, chica! I thought I was slipping, or maybe you were. Enjoy the day!
