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So now the Dems are ok with public schools taking field trips to churches and participating in prayer services ?
Say..did you also change your minds about the prayer before HS football games start ?
I think the field trips to churches is really intended to let children see what other churches outside their experience are like. My grandmother, who did not go to church, insisted that all of her children go to church once a week. But they could go to any church they wanted. She wanted them to be able as adults to make an informed decision about their spiritual life. So if they wanted to go to a mosque, fine. If they wanted to attend mass, fine. If they wanted to go to temple, fine. She encouraged them to experiment and to learn about other religions. In today's world, where there is so much animosity being expressed about various religions, I don't think the field trips are a bad idea. Field trips do require parental permission, so if parents are uncomfortable with them, they can withhold permission. And I believe that the school has already come out with a statement that what happened on this particular field trip was not planned, and will not happen again.
I assume there were girls on this field trip too. Where were they? Why weren't they invited to pray with the men along with the boys?
They were not allowed in the prayer room. I don't know enough about the religion to comment on why..but the girls had to stay in another room and watch from afar.
Its funny that apologetic libbies claim that this was an educational experience where children are taught that Islamic women had/have more freedoms than Western women.
lmao...apologetic libbies believe that it was an education experience and are eating up the lies that Islamic women had/have more rights than Western women.
Who said that Islamic women had/have more rights than Western women?
Sorry DC but I call major BS! I too am from MA (Watertown) and this never happened. Unless you went to Catholic school, there was absolutely no connection between the CCD classes and the public school. If public school buses were being used to deliver kids to CCD from public school then they were breaking the law.
Maybe the buses were contracted/rented out by the church to do so?
I see public school buses making stops at day-care facilities for 1/2 day kindergarteners.
I wonder if the parents have to pay extra for that?
They were not allowed in the prayer room. I don't know enough about the religion to comment on why..but the girls had to stay in another room and watch from afar.
All I could find in a quick search:
Wiki says:
When men and women are praying together in public, the genders are usually separated. If a mosque has multiple rooms or floors, the women will pray either in another room or on a balcony. If separate areas are not possible, men and women are divided by rows. This is thought to prevent distraction during prayer.
Maybe there were no women praying that day to help indoctrinate the girls too?
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