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To: Chris land who wrote (502)	9/4/1998 3:18:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1542

Hi Chris, The Constitution forbids Congress, but leaves the power in the hands of individuals, schools and states. If a public school wants to establish Christianity as the official religion of that school it is contitutional lawful to do so. The news media has twisted the meaning of the amendment to mean separation of Church ans state., when it fact it only means that Congress shall not intefere with the citizens and state institution in the exercise of their religious rights. The nonchristian minorities have ulterior motives in falsely interpreting the First Amendment. Emile

To: Chris land who wrote (502)	9/4/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: Larry Voyles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1542

So who are you to demand that the freedom of prayer be removed from schools? "Freedom of Prayer" is a far different beast than "organized, required Christian prayer". If the government allows Christians to recite prayer over the school intercom, why not allow not Satanists to broadcast their prayers? Also, your Christian prayer will probably be patently offensive to many people of other religions, so should it be allowed? If you open up a publicly funded and supported institution to one religion, you have to open it up to ALL religions. Is that what you want? The concept of "reasonable accommodation" also applies here. If all religions can't be reasonably accommodated, then it may be permissible to say that NO religions will be accommodated.