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The measure — Amendment 2 — says Missourians’ right to express religious beliefs can’t be infringed. It protects voluntary prayer in schools and requires public schools to display a copy of the Bill of Rights.
This is a cause for celebration. The people of Missouri have affirmed that the First Amendment's free exercise clause is important and valid - and has provided legal protection against attacks on any Missourian who wishes to pray in school or in public. I think it is time that such amendments are sought in all state constitutions so that religious liberty continues to be upheld in the republic.
Yea! I'm looking forward to the rascals that will wear a "Hail Satan!" and "Allah is the one true God" t-shirts to school. I hope they chant, in low tones, in a Pentagram on the cafeteria floor...LOL
I hope a teacher who knows what nonsense this law is, will be clever enough to try that. ......LOL
If I was teaching, I obtain good examples of Bible beaters getting away with this stuff on campus, clear photos and video. Then wear my "worship the devil" t shirts. And pray to Lucifer.
You'd score Millions in damages when the "Christians" go back on their own sponsored legislation.
This is a cause for celebration. The people of Missouri have affirmed that the First Amendment's free exercise clause is important and valid - and has provided legal protection against attacks on any Missourian who wishes to pray in school or in public. I think it is time that such amendments are sought in all state constitutions so that religious liberty continues to be upheld in the republic.
That's cool, but at the same time it seems purely political, because praying was never against the law to begin with.
This is a cause for celebration. The people of Missouri have affirmed that the First Amendment's free exercise clause is important and valid - and has provided legal protection against attacks on any Missourian who wishes to pray in school or in public. I think it is time that such amendments are sought in all state constitutions so that religious liberty continues to be upheld in the republic.
Nobody ever had any problems with people wanting to offer voluntary prayer.
The problms come when the school (or other government entity) chooses and promotes prayer of a particular slant. It would be most difficult to create a prayer that satisfies people of all religious stripes, be they Catholic, Sikh, protestant, Jewish, Druid, Wiccan, Atheist, Agnostic, Jain, Buddhist, Muslim - whatever. That is the reason for separation of church and state, so that one group is not preferred over another.
What "Prayer in schools" means to most of these loudmouths is "freedom to promote Christianity", and that would be very wrong and unamerican if the state did it.
Or can you honestly say that you would be OK with a state supported school promoting public prayers to Allah?
We complain often times about how politicians will pass a law, not enforce it and then pass another redundant law. Sorry, this is doing the same thing. Voluntary prayer in school has been upheld over and over, there is no need for a law.
The "right to pray" is another stupid fundamentalists hobgoblin. Nobody has taken away anyone's right to pray, what society has done is prevented one religion from forcefully dominating and bullying the others, or the non-religious.
Here is an article explaining some of the problems that the amendment seeks to address:
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McGhee, whose legislation led to the amendment proposal, told FoxNews.com about an incident in which a teacher told a kindergartner singing “Jesus Loves Me” while swinging on the playground to instead sing “mommy loves me.”
So if the kindergardener is supposed to sing "Mommy loves me" instead of "Jesus loves me" is she supposed to follow that up with "because the government tells me so"?
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