re what part of no don t you understand 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 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 i should have thought better of someone posting from a uchicago address how can you manage to say such nonsense without shame muslim students might have a complaint if they are prevented from setting out their rugs and doing the proper ablutions before prayer at the times specified in the qu ran jews would probably like the opportunity to daven with tefillim and whatever else they require at their appropriate times i do not see them complaining though muslims and jews have a case that no christian i have ever heard has been able to make the christian insistence on a public universal enforced moment of prayer h h h h h hsilence is nothing but the inquisition naturalized into the american context it is offensive to the gospel of christ michael l siemon i say you are gods sons of the mls panix com most high all of you nevertheless or you shall die like men and fall mls ulysses att com like any prince psalm
