> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 2:48 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Enron executive commits suicide > > > 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.
And you have legs too, hit the road with that prayer, I am a student here to attend school. You take that non-school related stuff somewhere else. Do it on your time. > > >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 ;-) Yes, you would. I can just imagine Fox News getting hold of this one. The whole reason for keeping it out of the classroom is NOT that you make other kids do it, it is that you make them feel left out, on the outside of the group. Not a believer, etc. So I do 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. That is correct. You don't get a special right to pray in school openly. Don't infringe my right to sit at my desk, in my class, by making listen to your prayer. Take it somewhere else. > > >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. No, um, you leave and do it on your own time, somewhere that my tax dollars are not paying for. Thanks. > > >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. I completely agree with you, we have options. One is that you can say a prayer outloud somewhere else. I should not have to ask them to say it somewhere else. -Gary > ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
