> > > People are alowed to pray in school, schools just arn't allowed to force people to pray.
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> > Think again. In at least some states -- possibly all, but I'm not sure -- you can't pray, period. I did anyway, and fortunately I went to schools where it was not made a big deal. But, then, I tend to pray inconspicuously anyway, so who knows.
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> Back this up. To my understanding, (and a quick glance around the web, particularly at the ACLU's page) seems to say that you are allowed to pray at school, but that public school's are not allowed to have any sort of organized prayers or "moments of silence". You are freely allowed to pray at school all you'd like.
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> > Obviously forced prayer is wrong, but even going so far as to remove optional school sponsored prayer was, I firmly believe, going too far. Regardless, it is clear that ruling against prayer under any circumstances is not only wrong but no business of the people who made and enforce those rules.
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> Well, under no circumstances should the school "sponser" prayer. The courts and the constitution are pretty clear on this fact. But I'd agree, not allowing *student* sponsored prayer is totally nuts.
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> Stephen

I think you are allowed to have a moment of silence, expecially if some tragidy had occured. A moment of silence is like haveing the flags at half-mast, a sign of respect. The respect is directed to any particualar diety, or even a diety at all in some cases, so I don't see any problem with it.

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