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babb@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com (Scott Babb) writes:
>rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
>: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
>: >Ah, but it is illegal now.  Not only can the school not pay for praying
>: >at a graduation, but the SC recently ruled that no praying can take place
>: >there, regardless of funding.
>: 
>: Wait a minute. The sc said that no one can pray while they are graduating??
>: Please cite this decision I would be interested to hear it.
>: Carl, do you have this SC decision banning prayer on FTP?

>WHAT!?!?! The Supreme Court has banned prayer on FTP?!?

    That's only if you're a sysop, postmaster, or some other form of 
"agent" representing the internet. Users, however, are still encouraged 
to use prayer while logged in (or at the very least, to cross their 
fingers).

>  What jurisdiction
>do they have over the data flowing through a TCP/IP port?  I'll bet that
>many people who have FTPed across the Internet have prayed for a stable
>network connection, low bandwidth usage, etc.  Does this mean that they're
>all violating the Constitution?  (;-))

    Not necessarily. If they limit their prayers to exhortations for 
help from gender and ethnic non-specific gods then their prayers might
be allowable under federal guidelines.

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Nathan Engle                        Software Juggler
Psychology Department               Indiana University
nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu      nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu