re what part of no don t you understand in c y e j panix com mls panix com michael siemon writes in apr midway uchicago edu eeb quads uchicago edu e elizabeth bartley writes i can certainly see opposing the amen but that doesn t require opposing a moment of silence if the only people proposing a moment of silence are doing so as a sham to sneak in prayers then it must be opposed what the hell have prayers to do with public schooling i ask this question as a devout christian uh oh michael you typed hell and capitalized it to boot now peter nyikos will explain that you re not a real christian i ll back off when they do does anybody else besides me see a vicious circle here i guarantee you the people who want school prayer aren t going to back off when they can t even manage to get a quiet moment for their kids to pray silently their kids can bloody well pray any god damned time they want to and nothing on heaven or earth in government or the principal s office can prevent or in any other way deal with their doing so especially if the prayer is silent as bursting out into the shema yisrael or some other prayer might be construed as disruptive if audible no one ever prevented me from praying in public school they hardly even prevented me from masturbating in study hall bzzt sorry michael the nyikos inquisition pointed out that i was hell bound after one mildly scurrilous pun on revealing oneself admitting to masturbation well i m just shocked mp
