If The Religous Right Had Their Way...

[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.