Brad, these kids meeting for prayer look more like pep rallies for
football games; and the encouragement they get from local preachers to
go out and convert their fellow students is ineeed a kind of zealotry.
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From: Brad M Pardee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:06 PM
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: FYI: An Interesting "See You at the Pole" Case
Zealotry? How is a group of kids meeting together to pray qualify as
zealotry? And how does one child's uninformed bigotry have anything to
do with whether or not kids meet together to pray? Surely you're not
suggesting that kids should hide their faith at school, as though it was
something to be ashamed of.
Brad
Paul Finkelman wrote on 10/31/2005 12:38:45 PM:
WHere I live (Oklahoma) some teachers in some public schools take
attendance at the "See you at the Polls" meetings and some give extra
credit for those who attend. Students who do not attend are often
shunned by others. In one school a young man was holding the door for
students to enter the school but then closed it in the face of a girl,
saying, "I do not hold the door for Jews." This is not a school
sanctioned act -- rather it is the act of a student, but it does
illustrate the social climate created by bringing religious zealotry to
the school.
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