--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 9/13/06 11:21:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > School sponsored event. You gotta sit thruogh it if you want to > get your diploma. End of story. > > Doesn't matter, free speech issue. The person was invited to > speak. There is no law prohibiting the exercise of religion, > anywhere.
Hmm, seems to me I recall prayer in public schools being banned quite some time ago. > That would violate > the first amendment to the Constitution. Case closed. The > first amendment does not say there are restrictions on > where free speech or religion may be practiced, it > guarantees both. *And* it says Congress may make no law respecting establishment of a religion, which means there is sometimes a *conflict* between that and free speech. Free speech, of course, is by no means absolute; there are many exceptions where the right to free speech conflicts with other constitutional freedoms. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
