I'm truly offended that now that Muslim students want to pray, the system doesn't have a problem with students organizing their own religious gatherings . . .
The following is a quote from the article linked below.
Alex Luchenitser is an Associate Legal Director with Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. He says,"The separation of church and state prohibits schools from promoting religion. This probably does not present any constitutional problem as long as the same accommodation would be given to any other religion."
http://www.kvoa.com/news/n4t-investigators-church-and-state-98583/
Now, when it was Christians trying to gather, that was not the case and most of American society is clueless as to any Jewish prayers. I remember clear back in my school days when the Bible Club tried to have prayer for lunch. We were told we could not be accommodated for that specific time, because it was not a school sponsored activity. It could not be a school sponsored activity because of the separation of church and state. If I remember correctly, we were allowed to use a classroom after school, for a time, but that rule changed also. That's been 40 years ago, so this has been in the works for some time.
So I read a headline that says a little boy was not allowed to read his Bible to himself, in free reading time, but Muslim children are afforded time out of class to pray . . . Where is the uproar from the group of "separation of church and state?"
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