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To: epicure who wrote (168076)	8/6/2011 11:03:40 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543699

I stipulate that your facts are pretty correct: Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. PERRY bowed his head and said “amen” as a Baptist pastor led a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. The prayer was noteworthy not for what it said, but for where it was said: at a student assembly in a public middle school in East Texas. Afterward, Mr. PERRY said he had no problem ignoring the Supreme Court’s landmark 1962 ruling that barred organized prayer in public schools. I don't have a problem with that either. Frankly, for someone to barge into a setting like that and censor the minister (or Perry for saying amen), would be high-handed and offensive imo. IMO, this is the kind of mindset that tries to forbid the use of the words Christmas and Easter when school holidays roll around. The fact is Christianity is a majority religion among the American people. Want the kids praying to Allah after an emergency- because in the "horror" of the moment someone thinks it would be cool to ask Allah for help? Tough to answer that, eh? I guess that's why you ignore it. I thought I addressed it. If we ever become a country where Muslims are dominant, there will be prayer to allah in schools and you won't be telling them things have to be secular. Muslims won't be anywhere near as tolerant as Christians are.