Quote of the Day
“The conservatives say their rights are trampled by keeping prayer out of schools, out of tax-supported buildings and out of courts. What absolute nonsense. They remain free to worship and pray with their families when they wake up, when they take their children to school, when they come home, when they dine, when they go to their place of worship. The only restriction is on their right to impose their religious moral views on others. What the religious right wants to do is mandate its version of morality as the only acceptable version. There is a simple way to test this. How would the religious right respond to the invocation of a Santaria prayer or Wicca prayer by a student at a school event? Or, an invocation by an adherent of Satanism? I think we all know there would be uproar.” – Ira Cohen, Letter to the Ventura County Star
Allowing prayer in public schools means (in the end) allowing ALL prayers, not just the Judeo-Christian variety. Keeping government buildings and schools free of public religious expression is the best compromise against allowing faith-based tyranny.
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