Separation of church and state apparently doesn't apply to everyone

I am waiting for the Quebec debate to start...part of Quebec history is the separation of church and state.

 

I think that if the Christian faith required one to pray at particular times of the day they would be justified in asking for the same thing.

 

It's immaterial whether or not Christians are required to pray. The question is how accommodating would public schools be to allow that? In looking at past experiences, it seems highly doubtful.

 

Nothing stops Christians from praying in public schools. Screaming to Jesus out loud in bio class is disruptive, and very likely will get you removed, but that's not a constitutional violation.
Public schools cannot, however, organize that prayer, mandate that prayer, or allow their facilities to be used for sectarian gatherings of any kind. Which is why, I think the extra-recess piece of this story will fail when someone sues. And any piece that quotes a loon like Daniel Pipes about how there's a conspiracy to make us all acquiesce to living under Islamic law is a bit, well, inusufficient in its fact-checking.

 

Just because you disagree with Daniel Pipes doesn't change the facts of the issue. He probably thinks you don't have all your marbles either, and I would agree.

 

Pipes?

An absolute model of cooperative moderation.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2003/05/we_420_01.html

 

Anyone who thinks that there is a concerted effort to force Americans to worship Islam is either an idiot or believes their own bullshit.

 

Hockey...isn't there, like everything else in life, a middle ground here? Some of us can see a very possible double standard here without thinking there's some great Muslim conspiracy here.

 

I don't see a double standard. I see a paranoid, racist idiot starting yet another anti-Muslim thread because he's scared of his own shadow.

Every college in this country has a nondenominational chapel for students to worship. Why is it a big deal that some colleges are setting aside rooms for Muslims?

 

We're not talking solely about colleges, hockey. We're talking about schools in general, especially public schools.

 

Why can't Muslims use the nondenominational chapel instead of having separate facilities?

When Christians are allowed a special recess to pray, cool. Until then the ACLU is a bunch of hypocrites.

 

Yeah, that'll work. Then the Christian kids will have to take off their shoes and wash their feet before entering the non-denominational chapel.

I can just imagine the reaction then.