Comments on: Inside the Christian legal campaign to return prayer to public schools https://hechingerreport.org/the-sneaky-school-prayer-renaissance/ Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:10:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark Edsel Cheatham https://hechingerreport.org/the-sneaky-school-prayer-renaissance/comment-page-1/#comment-59719 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:10:18 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=93390#comment-59719 Relationship, not religion.
God calls to each creature on this planet to fellowship with Him.
To keep our LORD out of public schools is to prohibit individuals the right and opportunity to have and benefit from a relationship with God.
This is a gross misuse of man’s God-given right to create and instate federal and local laws!

]]> By: Shannon Maness https://hechingerreport.org/the-sneaky-school-prayer-renaissance/comment-page-1/#comment-48688 Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:10:33 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=93390#comment-48688 Unfortunately for the author the idea or term “separation of church and state” never appears in the constitution. It has no bearing at all in the constitution. The term was first used by Thomas Jefferson in a letter discussing the government establishing a state religion. It was only recently that the term was “discovered” in that letter and picked up and used in the courts. No matter what side of the argument you fall on you can’t say that the constitution calls for separation of church and state, simply not true. The constitution only states that the government can’t have an official religion that it forces people to follow.

]]> By: John Fox https://hechingerreport.org/the-sneaky-school-prayer-renaissance/comment-page-1/#comment-48635 Sun, 04 Jun 2023 13:17:01 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=93390#comment-48635 If parents need prayer in school and other public places, perhaps they should look to failures within their own church and parenting skills as the reason for their children not being religious instead of trying to foist their beliefs on others.

The Constitution intended to prevent government institutions, such as schools, from forcing a particular belief onto others. There is nothing that prevents children from taking Bibles or other religious material to school and praying.

If parents and churches need others to take on that responsibility, then they are the ones that are shirkng their own responsibility. Forcing others to take up their failures is irresponsible in my opinion.

]]> By: James J Matthews https://hechingerreport.org/the-sneaky-school-prayer-renaissance/comment-page-1/#comment-48579 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:19:22 +0000 https://hechingerreport.org/?p=93390#comment-48579 I pray that their campaign will fail!

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