From: Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gabriel Sechan wrote:
From: "Christian Seberino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, March 25, 2007 9:26 pm, Lan Barnes wrote:
> Prayer is NOT illegal anywhere. FORCED prayer is in government funded
> institutions. Can't you discern the difference?
If I'm not mistaken, you couldn't give a graduation commencement address
and ask for a *voluntary* prayer before you started.
Nope, and you shouldn't be able to. Thats an official school function.
By asking for a "voluntary" prayer, you're forcing everyone there,
students and spectators alike, to stand by and wait while you pray.
Sorry, you don't have a right to shove your beliefs down my throat.
Actually, no, no I'm not sorry. You're perfectly welcome to say a short
prayer before getting up on stage, just don't say it so loudly it
interrupts procedings. That should be perfectly fine, unless of course
its your goal to shoveel your drivel at everyone else.
*Your* drivel should not be allowed to suppress their prayers. If I choose
to pray, you have the right to leave or to occupy yourself in some civil
manner.
Sure- up until the point you're doing it as an invited speaker at a
government funded event. You don't like that? You have the option to not
speak.
Besides, someone praying where you can hear them is *not* them shoving
their beliefs down your throat. You forbidding them from doing so is *YOU*
shoving *your* beliefs down theirs.
Who said they can't pray where I can hear them? They can't pray as an agent
of the government during a government sponsored event. Huge difference.
Gabe
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