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From: "Philip Arnold - ASP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:46 AM
Subject: RE: Prayer In school


> > I draw the line at that. Prayer shouldn't be taught in public
> > schools, but if a group of people at the school want to say a
> > prayer, then there is no problem with that.
>
> But... What if it's (say) a Catholic school? Theoretically, shouldn't
> all pupils be Catholic, so therefore they SHOULD be taught Prayer... Or
> am I wrong in this?

We are talking about public schools in the US.  Private schools are a
different matter entirely.  If folks want to have official school religious
clubs, or school prayers they are welcome to attend religious schools.

>
> Personally I'm not religious, but if you go to a religious school, then
> you should have to live with their edicts - shouldn't you?
>
> I'm personally against a normal school forcing religious education on
> pupils, especially a multi-ethnic school - I was brought up as a
> Baptist, so I know some biblical stuff, but I HATED that I was forced to
> read Church of England stuff at school - RE was a required subject until
> age 13, and this from a normal school... Can you imagine a Muslim child
> being forced into this - isn't it a breach of civil liberties?
>

Yes, it is.

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