silenceA U.S. District judge ruled that an Illinois law requiring a moment of silence is unconstitutional because it “is a subtle effort to force students at impressionable ages to contemplate religion.”  While I do not think the Constitution requires the elimination of prayer from schools, neither am I an advocate of having school-led prayer.  But a moment of silence is hardly a prayer, and hardly constitutes religion.

Basically this ruling says people cannot even be afforded a few seconds by school officials to offer up their own silent prayers to the god of their choice, if they so choose.  This is militant secularism.  And of course, the lawsuit was filed by a militant atheist.  And they think it’s the Christians who are intolerant.  Nothing says tolerance like “you can’t pray at school in silence if you want to.”