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5/13/2009
1:03:41 pm EDT
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Senior: Take Prayer Out Of Graduation
Author: Patrick Preston Source: NBC 4i (OH)
Title: SENIOR: TAKE PRAYER OUT OF GRADUATION
A local community that’s largely centered around family and religion is riled up over a challenge to a tradition.
A senior at Southeastern High School in Ross County told his school he wants prayer taken out of the school’s upcoming graduation ceremony.
Seventeen-year-old Jacob Davis also wrote a letter to the editor of the local newspaper and has enlisted the help of a lawyer from the group Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
Seventeen years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled public school prayer violates the Constitution’s First Amendment by coercing students into religious participation.
Jacob, who practices the Wiccan faith, said he’s angry that nearly two decades later, Southeastern’s graduation prayer continues. He proposed replacing it with a moment of silence.
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| All Schools... | May 13th. at 8:53:10 pm EDT
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Corax (Glendale, Arizona) - Email Me
should be made ABSOLUTELY SECULAR. This will eliminate all the ridiculous bickering about giving equal time and access, etc. to all the disparate religious groups. People have their own homes and churches to pray in. Giving time to religious groups at school is just a very thinly-veiled excuse for proselytization on school property, which, in my opinion, blatantly violates the principle of Separation of Church and State!
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
"“And if the school thinks this is best, one person shouldn’t be able to change the minds of everyone,” Speakman said."
So mob rule is still law in pitiful excuses of learning centers?
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| I Agree.. | May 13th. at 6:43:32 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
with him. This a school, not a church or other religious institution. What should be celebrated are the acadamicians who are graduating. The audience should not be held captive for a prayer session, no matter who is presiding. Those who are of differing faiths do sometimes find it offensive to have to sit through a long religious ceremony honoring a spirit not their own while waiting to get their diplomas.
You can see the temper tantrums that would result if those students and staff so eager to hold a prayer session had to sit through a Muslim prayer before hand. That would be interesting to see.
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| Make A Pleasant Noise Unto Thy Neighbor's Lord? | May 13th. at 2:52:10 pm EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
"While many in the community said Davis doesn’t have to listen to the graduation prayer, he said he shouldn’t have to hear it."
I do not see a lawful resolution to this, until it's admitted, that Education is a Religious Institution, under the Brotherhood of Solomon, albeit that Solomon was educated in a Vedantist Druidry. Some students should not accept the blessings of this coming of age in community celebration, without common offerings unto Heaven, in their respective traditions.
One thing that might look like a cheap workabout, but might actually work quite well, would be a diversity of Sign Language Teachers, leading the prayers of diverse trads, in ASL. It might be a biit social reformerish, but I've always wanted to learn ASL for Discoteques and Libraries. They could even ask a Quaker to hold her hands togeather. I could see it working, but I can't see it being tried.
Second Opinion: PAge of Wands Inverted: Indecision; Relctance; Instability; A gossip; Bearer of bad tidings; A person who may break your heart; Displeasure... Is this about me or that School Board?
Ah, I'm supposed to be looking up Craig's List, and to start advertising my ministry.
Arawn
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