If The Religous Right Had Their Way...

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Sam

Several years ago I was part of a Bible Study group at GE and Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority were pretty strong and the Ayatollah Khoumeini was running Iran under Muslim law. I alienated some of my Christian brothers and sisters in the Bible study group when I said I would not like the "Moral Majority" dictating our laws and I compared it to the Muslim law under the Ayatollah.

I would not like any religious group, Christian, Muslim, or whatever telling my child or grandchild in school that he has to pray and then prescribing a certain prayer that has to be prayed. I do not believe in programmed prayer in school if it is anything other than a time of silence to allow people to pray or not pray as they wish. I do not agree with religious instruction in public schools whether that instruction is Christian, Muslim, Secular humanist or whatever.

I too would prefer a public school system that prescribed for a time of prayer or silence.

I would want to be careful to not strip religion from History, as it relates to the History discussed, but the public school is not the place for government forced Bible study, Koran study and etc.