Battling Anew Over the Place of Religion in Public Schools
Posted: December 27, 2011.
Print: New York Times
excerpt:
It has been nearly 50 years since the Supreme Court ruled that officially sponsored prayer in public schools violated the separation of church and state.
But in some corners of the country, especially in the rural South, open prayer and Christian symbols have never really disappeared from schools, with what legal advocates call brazen violations of the law coming to light many times each year…
Among recent examples:
¶ At Pace High School near Pensacola, Fla., teachers cited the Bible as fact in class and one teacher preached to students with a bullhorn as they arrived at school. In litigation that ended in July, the Santa Rosa County district agreed to stop promotion of religion but said that teachers could pray in private settings and could use expressions like “God bless you.”
¶ In Sumner County, Tenn., teachers led students in prayer and Bible study, and allowed Gideons International to distribute Bibles during school hours. Officials agreed this month to end the practices.
¶ In Baltimore, under threat of a lawsuit last spring, district officials stopped a school principal from holding prayer services to help students prepare for a standardized test.
study after study after study has shown that prayer does not work…matter in fact the people that had illnesses got worse….if there is a “god” then why does he allow people to die the way they do from diseases or cancer or what ever illness…when you die you just die thats it…its that simple…x-tians like to complicate things….they (meaning x-tians) need to read the book “Society Without God” Mr. Zuckerman interviewed hospice workers and they all stated the ones that had the most difficult time dying were the x-tians not the Athiest…mmmm what a concept!
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