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- From: brian@opac.osl.or.gov (BRIAN MCBEE)
- Subject: Re: Limiting religious speech
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:51:39 GMT
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- From: brian@opac.osl.or.gov
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- Subject: Re: Limiting religious speech
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.085131.1825@opac.osl.or.gov>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 08:51:30 PST
- References: <4-hy-yq@rpi.edu>, <UeYz6mS00XsEA6g0Vc@andrew.cmu.edu> <57411@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <57411@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, <bernman@symphony.cc.purdue.edu> writes:
- > In article <UeYz6mS00XsEA6g0Vc@andrew.cmu.edu> dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu
- > (David O Hunt) writes:
- >>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).
- > ---
- >
- > 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?
- >
- > --
- > /\/B E R N M A N\/\
- >
- > "The more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not know..."
-
- I suspect that this is one of the basic contradictions in public funding of
- schools. SOMEONE has to decide what is or is not permissable. How do you
- reconcile that with freedom of speech and academic freedom issues? I suspect
- that there is no non-contradictory way. In private schools there is an easy
- answer: those who pay the piper get to call the tune. When we are all forced
- to pay the piper through taxation, which of us calls the tune, and which is
- forced to pay for something he finds abhorent? I sure don't have an answer.
-
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