Howard Baker passes

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I'll just respond to your first one. Having a moment of silence where students can do anything from reflecting on the day, to praying (any religion they want), to daydreaming is hardly shoving anyone's religion down anyone's throats. You have it upside down. When states have ruled that a moment of silence is totally legal, it is the atheists whose panties get in a wad and take it to court and sue. God forbid some students exercise their right to think about whatever they want during the moment of silence. Some of them may actually pray silently. We can't have that.

The only ones in this case who want to control people's thoughts are the atheists. Maybe we should take it a step further. Would you be in favor of giving students a lie-detector test to make sure that they never thought about God during the school day? To think silently about God while you are on school grounds is a violation of the Constitution. LOL.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/...constitutional

Well played Robert. You say respond to the first but addressed an issue she didnt bring up. Then you ignored every other point she brought up. Then you dip into the absurd. She flat out crushed you. You may as well just typed two random characters on the page and pressed enter.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by jms62

Well played Robert. You say respond to the first but addressed an issue she didnt bring up. Then you ignored every other point she brought up. Then you dip into the absurd. She flat out crushed you. You may as well just typed two random characters on the page and pressed enter.

I only responded to the first one because it was an easy one to respond to and I didn't feel like spending 2 hours researching all the other ones. With regards to the first one, it was a straw man argument in the first place. Christians don't try to force anyone to do Christian prayers in schools. That is nonsense. What credible (or not credible) Christian has suggested that schools should force christianity on the students?

The only issue with regard to prayer in schools is whether a moment of silence is ok. There is no issue about forcing christianity on the students because nobody is in favor of that. Anyone who claims there is such an issue is completely mischaracterizing the facts. There definitely is an issue about a moment of silence. Atheists are against it and they have gone to court over it numerous times. The issue is whether a moment of silence is constitutional and whether being in favor of it is an attempt to try try to impose your religion on people. I can debate you guys on the issue of a moment of silence. I can't debate you on straw man issues that don't exist.