At 08:03 PM 1/26/2002 -0900, you wrote: >Except, because the teacher sanctioned it the school is also sanctioning it >via their employee - the teacher is acting as a teacher not as a citizen if >they are on school property leading kids in prayer. > >Why couldn't the kids just get together and pray without making it a school >function (which is what they obviously wanted to do?)?
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a national organization, the chapter of students from Lafayette wanted to hold their meetings after school, they thought, hey we all go to this school, why not hold our meetings here, so they found out that for a group to meet at school they must have a teacher to supervise (not lead). So they found a teacher, but when the school found out it was for a religious group they said no. In this case the teacher wasn't leading the students, he was just there to make sure they didn't break stuff. They weren't trying to make it a school function they just wanted to make it convenient for all students who wanted to be a part of it. Just because I work for a company and am of a certain religion, and say a prayer before I eat lunch at work does not mean my company is pushing that religion. I think this is the problem with all of this. People are people and have they have rights as individuals, me saying a prayer to the Sun God Ra does not infringe on your rights if you happen to hear or see me do it. It is an infringement on your rights if I force you listen to me, and I think that is pushing it. ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
