school prayer

From the San Antonio Express-News: Church [of Scientology] suddenly drops its bid to muzzle couple Biery's critics "newtralized" in Medina Valley prayer ruling

Here's the deal as you may know from the JREF blog. Jessica Alhquist was a high school student who sued to get a prayer banner removed. And then her classmates turned on her. Deciding that the whole "kindness" thing in Christianity is apparently optional they have been harassing and threatening...

Yesterday a now ex friend and I were discussing politics and when my friend said prayer shouldn't have been taken out of Public schools I said it should have and he went ballistic and said Americas a Christian country. I tried to tell him that America was about freedom of or from religion but...

While looking for some other statistics, I found several websites claiming that in 1962 the number of teen pregnancies was 5000 and immediately after school prayer was outlawed by the Supreme Court, the number rose to 27000. I have my doubts as to the veracity of the figures because some sites...

Lawsuit in illinois against a law mandating a moment of silence in schools. This is the kind of crap that drives donations to Jay Sekulow. When I was a young theist, I never felt pressured to pray during a moment of silence and in fact usually used that time to think about naked chicks. Now...

A 14 year old girl and her father are filing a federal lawsuit challenging a mandated period of silence at the beginning of the day in Illinois public schools. http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-10-26-moment-of-silence_N.htm Personally (and as another proud atheist), I disagree with...

I teach first grade, and I try to incorporate my skepticism when I can. We have frequent discussions and experiments about whether or not crossing your fingers gets you your wish. My last year's class got broken of that belief pretty quickly. So, this new school year, I have a boy who prays at...

Just an observation really. Whenever I read about American religion I encounter the "God was removed from school's in 1963: Bring back School Prayer" groups. Yet does prayer in school actually lead to theistic belief? I attended an English state school, where religious observation, in the...

In their issue on Evangelicals, Newsweek gave a list of "traditionally conservative conservative isasues", and the last one was "The government should allow prayer inschool". That's not a conservative issue. Only the most radical anti-Christians are opposed to prayer in school. Liberals, in...