Allowing prayer in public schools remains a compelling and often heated issue for many Americans. Is a student-led Lord's Prayer acceptable before the big game on Friday night? What about a two-minute "moment of silence" during home room? Of course, this isn't simply a matter of prayer itself but a representation of a much larger, more encompassing topic: Where does the line exist between religious freedom and religious imposition?
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Student Initiated Religious Expression is Constitutional Free Speech
- From Rutherford Institute
By The Rutherford Institute - Civil Liberties and Human Rights
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Being offensive isn't the problem
The problem is that schools are public and state-run and students should not have to have a belief pressured on them. It's as simple as that.
- Blue Linchpin
January 3, 2009 1:38PM
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graduation choices
The issue of speaking any type of religion during graduation has been taken too far. The speech is about the student and they should be able to say what they want. Religion may have been what have guided them through school and they have to the right to say that as long as what they say is not vulgar or disrespectful.
- kcesarski
February 11, 2009 10:09PM
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Indubidably
As the Supreme Court has decided that a religious affliation or acknowledgment of a "God" by a faculty/staff member of a school as unconstitutional, who is to say that the students themselves should be a part of that clause? Students, though they may be denied some of their constitutional rights, such as the search and seizure clause, this does not restrict their right to freedom of expression. Who says a student should not be able to discuss religion or bring up a controversial aspect involving religion? No one. As long as the teacher remains the devil's advocate, the students should be free to debate as they so choose.
- LeeLee
February 22, 2009 8:36PM
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