Right to prayer? ... am i missing something?

This is for all religions right?

And it also allows for non-believers to be excused, right?

So why is it an issue?

I went to a religious school but was excused from all religious assemblies. I had no issue with those wanting to pray and would sometimes go to the assembly.

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

The US has always had a lot of intense pressure to make schools pseudo-religious institutions with regular mandated prayer so there's been a "not one drop" approach to separation of church and state.

Like this isn't someone randomly praying privately to himself people do that in schools all the time. This is a school leader in the middle of the football field in a public ritual.

Is the school praying or is he?

And if it's just his private business, would the response be identical if he was a Muslim? Would the school feel just as comfortable with him representing them?

Legally it should be the same thing. We all know that politically it would not.

BabyLonia · F

@CountScrofula thank you, that seems to make sense. I forgot about the separation of state and church

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@BabyLonia Yeah. The prayer itself, frankly, isn't a problem. It's the bigger political battle that it's become central to that matters.