A 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.”
Thinking to Believe 
February 6, 2009 at 8:50 pm
That would be… “you can’t force someone else to pray at school in silence if you want to.”
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February 9, 2009 at 11:55 am
I’m not sure of the point you are trying to make. Are you in favor of the ruling, or opposed to it?
No one is being forced to pray. If they are being forced to do anything at all, it is to shut their flap for a few seconds. What they, or anyone else in the room does during those few seconds is up to them. They can stare at the wall, talk to their god, or plan their day out.
Is it too much to ask an atheist to be quiet for a few seconds, and let other people pray silently if they so choose? Or has freedom in this country been reduced to “you can’t do what I don’t do”?
Jason
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