Deb's thoughts

You have to remember that it was not the Churches that took the prayer out of school nor was it the school that pushed for this.... It was a small percentage of our population that wanted this and our government caved......
Our district still says the pledge every morning with the words under god and a group of kids at the high school meet every morning on their own and pray before school.......
I see nothing wrong with the school officials going to church and interacting with the community....

You cannot celebrate or give time to one religion without celebrating or giving time to all of them. This situation has come about in the name of equal rights. It’s a result of believing that everyone has to be treated equal on every level and we did it to ourselves. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but its equal and that seems to be everyone’s only concern.

I think before a lot of the changes that were put in place to assure equal rights, we had to accept differences and not be threatened or feel slighted by people showing thiers freely. Course there were a lot of things that were viewed and treated on different levels like status, race, and education. I remember when it was the polite thing to stay quiet while others lived their opinions and beliefs and I remember being taught to worry about myself and who I should be rather than whom everyone else should be. Now it’s impolite and politically incorrect to express your opinions and beliefs if they are do not originate from a minority, not the same as everyone who can in anyway see or hear you, are unhealthy, unattractive or represent something controversial. We talk about diversity but most times we grudgingly accept it only when exactly the same amount of time and attention for all expressions is given; otherwise we view it as favoritism or prejudicial. If it offends, then diversity is thrown out the window and its banned. I wonder if we truly less disparaging or just less honest. :(

Beacause -from the beatitudes of why for. or a typo.

One has nothing to do with the other.

The schools were in the churches for one reason and one reason only... To FORCE parents to actually take some responsibility for their own kids and get them to school on monday.

Free clothes, free backpacks, free supplies, free lunches, free breakfasts. We do everything for them and their kids the least the parents can do is get their kids up, dressed and to school on the first day.

I want to say I hate that relion is taken out of the schools. Winter bread is for CHRISTMAS and has been for many years and spring break if for EASTER. For the people who do not believe in God, you shouldn't get any paid off holidays for all the days we are off for relion. Why is it a few people don't want prayer in schools, so all kids have to do with out. We would probably have less violence and kinder children if we would bring Christ back in our schools.

The whole nation is seeing the results of the American Civil Liberties Usurpers. In their view, it's fine to usurp the freedom of worship, and the freedom of speech, when it is in favor of atheists, but when it goes in favor of those who believe in God, OH MY! The spit hits the fan! Tell the ACLU to pass their gas in their own places, and not in the people's faces!

I'm not an atheist. I would love to see prayer back in church. That is the whole point of my question.
How is this in favor of those who believe in God?
The State of Missouri (who now controls the city public schools) came into these churches to tell the parents to send their children to school. What would happen if the congregations of these churches went into the schools to tell the parents to send their children to church?

I would be absolutely thrilled to see the schools and churches working together, but it has to go both ways.

Separation of Church and State is clear in our Constitution. Under Amendments to the Constitution (Bill of Rights) Article I, Freedom of religion, speech, of the press, and right of petition.
James Madison wrote: "Religion is not within the purview of human government."
It was the Catholic advocates who in the 1960's pushed the issue that all public schools were Protestant and were unpalatable to them. Thus the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, by Justice Hugo Black: "When the power and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain... "the same history showed that many people lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith." Then in 1963 in Abington School Dist. v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 by Justice Tom C. Clark: "It is no defense to urge that the religious practices here may be relatively minor encroachments on the First Amendment. The breach of neutrality that is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent; and in the words of Madison, "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties."
In 1947 Justice Hugo Black wrote this Majority Opinion in Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, "the First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach."

Keep a short leash on the ACLU to preserve your religious rights; they're itching to take them away right under your noses. I smell a bunch of rats up to no good, but at this time, I can't quite sense what their next political stunt is.

I think kids do better in life brought up going to church I think prayer should be back in school