alt.education

Pastor Dave
>
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:43:35 -0800, Jerry Kraus
> wrote:
>
>
> >On Nov 8, 7:56 pm, Wide Eyed in Wonder wrote:
> >
> >> Lenin, in Russia a hundred years ago, told his party to declare war
> >> (privately) on religion. Well, we see this in contemporary American
> >> society. After years of telling people that they simply didn't want
> >> religion being forced upon kids by teachers, we now see their true
> >> agenda. In Illinois, they passed a law requiring a moment of silence
> >> before the instructional day for personal reflection...get
> >> that...reflection, not explicitly prayer. Tell me the teacher that
> >> wouldn't LOVE a minute of silence in their classroom. However,
> >> liberals have objected to even this...allowing kids a minute of
> >> unstructured time in which they MAY find the time to pray...
> >>
> >> /tm/articles/2007/11/08/06apnillinois_w...
> >>
> >> ...and a school district has decided to blatently defy their state
> >> government rather than risk that a child may pray on their own
> >> volition, silently, without influence of anyone around them. In
> >> short, they (liberals) are not only opposed to religious influence on
> >> the classroom but anyone that happens to be religious there, denying
> >> the FREE EXERCISE of children to pray, silently, on their own.
> >>
> >> Kenneth Clifton
> >>
> >
> >It's a school, you're there to learn, not to pray. You can pray in
> >Church, or anywhere else you like.
>
> So in other words, you seek to limit where people
> can pray. Have you heard of the 1st Amendment?
>
> And please don't bother telling me about the
> "separation of church and state". That is not
> found in the Constitution!

Absolutely corect. That phrase is nowhere to be found
in the Constitution .

Neither is "separation of powers", or "checks
and balances", or "exectutive privilege".

Nonetheless, these are all recognized implicit
concepts embedded in the Constitution, whether the
exact phrase appears or does not appear.


-- cary