Do you support organized school prayer? (Buddhist, America, churches, Islamic)
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Absolutely not--organized prayer has no place in public schools. I don't even know why anyone would start a thread implying otherwise. (And insinuating that it would make a difference if they happened to be Jewish prayers doesn't make for any more of a case. Public schools and prayer do not belong in the same sentence!)
I don't support any kind of organized school prayer, I don't care whether it's Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Buddhist or whatever it has no place in our Public Schools and is against the U.S. Constitution.
No, I don't support organized prayer in school, unless it's a privately funded religious school. (You didn't specify "public" school in the OP, although I assume that was the intention.)
At one time I may have said "yes" but even then only with hesitancy. I would say "no" now.
I think I would rather there be a "quiet period" than the Pledge of Allegiance, but it's often hard to avoid prayer becoming sectarian. My siblings went to a public school where the the teachers would grill them on being Catholic and expect them to come to a specifically Protestant "altar call." And in my public school, in a predominately Catholic town, a few teachers would ask kids if they were going to Mass in a way that was irritating to the Protestant kids.
Kids are impressionable and I don't really want public schools to try to convert kids to any specific religion or any specific irreligion either. (As a Catholic if teachers started leading their kids in Marxist May Day celebrations or daily recitations of the Humanist Manifesto I'd have a problem) Too much potential for abuse. That being said it doesn't really bother me when they have a non-denominational prayer at a one-time school event. Also if kids as individuals want to pray I think that has to be allowed as long as the prayer is not disruptive.
No. Public schools are for studying, not pushing a religious agenda. I have no desire to see American style Madrasahs anytime soon.
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