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> Ted, clam down and listen to me for a second here.
> No one wants to force you, your children, or anyone else to say a
> prayer.  Every Christian I know thinks that would be a very wrong thing
> to do.  But, at the same time, we do not want you telling us that our
> children cannot pray openly in school.

Pray wherever you want.  Nobody is trying to stop that, as you would try
and have us believe.  (That, of course, makes you both a liar and
contrary to the commandment about bearing false witness.  But I
digress.)  I object to a formalized prayer function at school where
things like reading and math are to be taught.  Of course, if you can
pitch your religion in public schools during class time, I should have
the same right to teach auto mechanics at the beginning of your church
service.

You want to have a religious function at school?  Fine.  Start a private
school with that purpose, and give up public funding.  That is your
right.  It is NOT your right to further your religion or anybody else's
in a public school. That has been upheld by The Supreme Court of The
United States; the arbiter of Constitutional questions.  You still
believe in the Constitutionally mandated Supreme Court, don't you?

> Liberals have a very hard time with living in a society as diverse as
> ours.  For some reason, they seem to believe that if God is
> acknowledeged by students in public schools, those same schools will
> suddenly become Baptist, or Catholic churches which will instantly lead
> to the rewriting of the Constitution to include a new amendment stating
> that there is now a national religion.

You have to call a formal meeting to acknowlege your god?  Interesting. 
Mine kinda knows we have a connection without having to call a quorum. 
What's the problem with your god?  Insecure, maybe?

> Liberals are way off base on this issue.  Students have a right to free
> exercise of their religion even on government property.  For who is the
> government in this country?  And, there are no writings of our
> forefathers that considered banning God from our local, state, or
> federal offices, buildings, or any politician who proclaims to believe
> in him.

Obviously you haven't read too many writings by or about our
forefathers.  But why confuse you with facts?

> Liberals are highly threatened by strong believers in God and Christ
> Jesus.  They see our government and religion as an all or nothing
> situation: We either have no references to God in government, or we have
> an official state religion where everyone is forced to attend church by
> law.

And you are highly threatened by those who can, and do think for
themselves outside of your alleged religion.  I believe in a Supreme
Being/Creator and do NOT believe in imposing my religious beliefs into
the government of my country.  My spiritual beliefs are between me and
my God.  My Creator does not need me to shill for her.  Sad that you
believe that yours seems to need it.

> Thankfully, or founding fathers never dreamed of banning God for any
> area within our wonderful country.  It is only recently that liberals
> have been misquoting our Constitution by claiming to have a right
> somewhere within it that grants them "Freedom From Religion".  However,
> my copies of that surely inspired document only states that Government
> shall not prohibit the free exercise of religion.

Let me get this straight.  We do not have the right to be free of
religion?  IS that what you are trying to foist on us?  My exercise of
religion may not be to NOT exercise a religion as you see it?  Are you
serious?  Or merely ludicrous?
 
> Of course, liberals have the right to not listen to the street corner
> preacher, or the fellow student in school who is praying openly with
> friends.  But, that same liberal cannot prohibit the free exercise of
> religion by his fellow countrymen, nor fellow students.
> STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE TO CHECK THEIR CONSTITUTION EACH DAY AS THEY WALK
> INTO A PUBLIC SCHOOL.

You would then, of course, support the practice of my "religion" that
dictates that whenever a heathen Christian prayer is perpetrated in a
public forum such as a classroom, that I must (in a display of devotion
to my god) immediately jump up, take off my clothes and joyously sing
out our sacred mantra (in the name of my god, of course), "Suck my
weenie, you Christians faggots, after I cornhole your nympho daughter!"
(sung reverently to the tune or "Oh, Suzanna" or "Why Don't We Get Drunk
and Screw" whichever works better.)  I mean, surely you, my fellow
countryman and fellow conservative, would not seek to do ANYTHING to
prohibit the free exercise of my religion, would you?  (Check your
Constitution, loyal fellow conservative countryman.)  

You, of course, would have he right to not listen.