At 07:26 PM 1/25/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Not at all. You can say it, you just don't have to make me listen to it. I
>have rights too.

You also have legs, and the ability to ignore people, and the ability to 
ask the person if they would do that somewhere else.

>So you would not mind a teacher, leading a consenting group (like maybe 1 or
>2 kids out of say 30) in a Satanic prayer? Oh, no, you meant the MAJORITY of
>the group. Ah, I see.

No, I wouldn't mind the teacher leading one or two students in a prayer, as 
long as the other students weren't forced to be a part of it. So you don't 
see ;-)

>You see, that is why we have this great republic. It also protects the
>minorities, or should anyhow. That has been it's strength and we must not
>let that be subverted. What is a majority at one moment may one day become a
>minority. Like ethical businessmen and politicians. ;)

The republic id not hear to hand out special rights, it is here to make 
sure your rights as an individual are not infringed.

>You can pray in school, just keep it between you and God, I don't want to
>here it.

Then leave, ignore it, ask them to be quite.

>BTW - I am not attacking you, that is the "people in general" you I am
>using, no offense intended Nick.

None taken, I just don't see why somebody saying a prayer is infringing on 
your rights, if you can hear it, just ask them to say it silently, if they 
won't ask them to do it somewhere else.

We have options as people that don't involve the law. We are capable of 
talking to one another.
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