School tells kids: Stop praying to Jesus, singing Amazing Grace

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GuessWho

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Human said:
Because by not devoting the time to the study of the bible, they can devote the time to CURRICULAR activities.
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The school should provide an option to those who want to study the Bible.
How are these students in the wrong? I am sure there would have been no problem if they met to discuss literature or the history of religions. But because they meet to pray, to sing and to discuss the Bible, their meeting is being looked at with suspicion. How is that? Where's the freedom of expression? Has the school become the police of thought?
 
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thimsrebma

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crossnote said:
of course it's not true. ..it was two questions. Funny how times have changed as there was a time when the bible was part of the school curriculum.
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A long time ago many public schools' basic operations were run by the United Methodist Church but funded thru the government. Eventually other denominations wanted to have their own schools funded by the government. The government said "we cannot finance all of these schools and have them run by different entities." So, "we will finance but no church will run the public school systems. We will have to run the schools ourselves."

For the most part, the Catholic Church was the only church who could afford to run schools and finance them. That is why you see so many Catholic schools and not nearly as many from other denominations. A similar type of thing also happened with hospitals across the US.
 
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“He was told that he could no longer pray with his fellow students during free time because of the separation of church and state,” said Jeremy Tedesco, an attorney representing the teenager.

So much for 'free' time.
 
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