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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
The funny thing is that I'm not sure that's it's necessarily unconstitutional. You know how those things work with the Supreme Court. One court may rule that something is unconstitutional and then another court may disagree. We may even see Roe v Wade overturned. I doubt it will happen but it is possible.
Anyway, depending on who happens to be sitting on the Supreme Court, you may get a totally different interpretation of what is considered Consitutional. There are plenty of judges who would not find it unconstituional if a short period was set aside at public schools for people to pray if they choose to. Whether prayer is allowed in public schools is not a cut and dry thing. If students were being forced to pray and forced to recognize a certain religion, then this would clearly be uncostitutional. But if students are given a choice, then that is very debatable as to whether that would be unconstitutional. In my opinion, that would definitely be permissable under our Constitution and I know that plenty of judges would agree with me.
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i did some research last night, as i wanted to make sure of what was what before i mentioned anything. the court over the last forty years has consistently ruled against any kind of prayer at school functions with the sole exception of commencement. not at games, not at schools, not even student-led.
there are different groups that meet at school, and of course religious groups are among those..but that's voluntary as to whether you want to participate, so there's no finding of it being unconstitutional solely due to religion being at a public school. but they've ruled over and over that any prayer held school wide is 'coerced' for lack of a better word from me right now...been up since 250 this am, so that's the best i can come up with.
but due to where we live, and the job i've got, then i'd imagine i'll be listening to somer on this....it's a small town, with a small town, very narrow minded bunch of people. it's funny, i like living where i live as far as my job, my husband likes his, we're happy with our lives. we just don't socialize much! we truly don't fit in here.