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To: Cogito who wrote (168213)	8/7/2011 7:24:40 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 544066

Pubilc school administrators are NOT free to offer prayers at public school events and haven't been for almost 50 years so I'm not sure where the paranoia about this comes from. In my idea world, I think it would be inappropriate for public school administrators to do this btw ... however if an invited speaker, minister or other, does so on some special occasion like a 911 memorial or a graduation ceremony, I don't have a problem with that. And yes, Christians do have the right to invoke Jesus in those situations ... I think the Memorial Day prayer the VA tried unsuccessfully to censor did so in a way that was respectful to other faiths. The roughly 25% (and growing) of the people who are not Christians can just sit there and grin. Perhaps they should act up, make obscene gestures to show their hostility. Maybe they could make mocking references to flying spaghetti monsters or something. Certainly they shouldn't be repectful of the people around them.