--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 9/13/06 1:17:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > In a message dated 9/13/06 11:21:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > > sparaig@ 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. > > Yet, as I pointed out Congress and many other government > programs open with an invocation. Yet schools can't? Could > the courts be wrong?
I do believe I already pointed out why these government invocations haven't been challenged legally and the school cases have. Would it be the > first time? I have yet to see the government make any laws > respecting the establishment of a religion I believe I also explained how "make any law" applies in these cases. Hint: it isn't the way you're interpreting it. but the courts have seen fit to deny the Free > Exercise Thereof. Sounds like the courts that do so are overstepping their > boundaries. Since there is no law, what law are they interpreting that says you can > do it here,but not here. In the case of school prayer, the law is the one that funds the public schools. > Or congressional members can be led in prayer but > students can't. Because the context is different. 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/
