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- From: bernman@symphony.cc.purdue.edu (Bernie Hoefer)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,alt.censorship,news.admin
- Subject: Re: Limiting religious speech
- Message-ID: <57411@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 02:35:35 GMT
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- In article <UeYz6mS00XsEA6g0Vc@andrew.cmu.edu> dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu
- (David O Hunt) writes:
- ---
- >If you want to pray at graduation, feel free. Nobody's stopping it.
- >The
- >decision was to prevent _organized_ prayer. e.g. Valedictorian says
- >"Let us now thank the Lord who enabled us to graduate" type of thing.
- >
- >Same thing with prayer in schools - nobody is saying you can't pray.
- >What they're saying is that prayer cannot be organized and sanctioned
- >(purposefully or by default).
- ---
-
- I thought the decision prevents SCHOOL OFFICIALS from
- promoting prayer. A school official cannot ask that a prayer
- be said.
- However, does this decision not work both ways? If
- a school official cannot promote a prayer, he or she cannot
- discourage it, either. Would a valedictorian, in his or her
- speech, be allowed to say a prayer or give thanks to his or her
- god? Since the valedictorian is not a school official
- (he or she not on the government's payroll) it would not be
- a case of "government" promoting religion. But if the school
- official tried to prevent the valedictorian from saying anything
- about god in his or her speech, would not this ruling be
- in favor of the valedictorian?
-
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