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That is how it is now except when the right to prayer by students is impeded. And in fact I think it should stay that way because federal public schools should not be endorsing any religious view at all. However, there is no such thing as a federal school as far as I know and if in a particular community the norm is to start football games with a prayer then that is their right. Yes they should not make minority groups feel excluded but lets get serious here. An atheist or a jewish person who is at a football game where it is opened with an invocation is not harmed. Nor would a christian minority (as I was when I attended a school that was 90 something percent jewish) be harmed by being witness to the traditions of another group. Witnessing what the majority does is not pressure to observe religious beliefs against ones will. So are there many people who want to return to the days when schools opened footbal games with prayers to a particular Christian God? Not many. ARe there people who would stand behind a misapplied rule of separations of church and state not just to not feel left out but as an act of aggression against Christianity? More than I would like to believe I fear. The idea that we should not make people feel left out because they do not believe as the majority should never have become a matter for the courts.
That is how it is now except when the right to prayer by students is impeded. And in fact I think it should stay that way because federal public schools should not be endorsing any religious view at all.
However, there is no such thing as a federal school as far as I know and if in a particular community the norm is to start football games with a prayer then that is their right. Yes they should not make minority groups feel excluded but lets get serious here. An atheist or a jewish person who is at a football game where it is opened with an invocation is not harmed. Nor would a christian minority (as I was when I attended a school that was 90 something percent jewish) be harmed by being witness to the traditions of another group.
Witnessing what the majority does is not pressure to observe religious beliefs against ones will.
So are there many people who want to return to the days when schools opened footbal games with prayers to a particular Christian God? Not many. ARe there people who would stand behind a misapplied rule of separations of church and state not just to not feel left out but as an act of aggression against Christianity? More than I would like to believe I fear.
The idea that we should not make people feel left out because they do not believe as the majority should never have become a matter for the courts.
