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Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - Lemon Drop - 08-04-2012
graylocks wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
so a man and a woman joining together produces an intersexed child. fuzzy math if you ask me...
:jest:
I wasn't even going to try and figure that one out.
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - Wags - 08-04-2012
Lord, save me from your followers
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - Manlove - 08-04-2012
They can pray themselves back to the 14th Century for all I care, just so long as nothing they do or say ever affects me or my family. If they cannot prove that they will not cause any detriment to me then they should not be able to change their laws. It's that whole trickle down nibbling away at rights thing that Cbelt was going on about a week or so ago! Once one right gets eroded, then the rest are likely to follow.
My right not to have to listen to, or in any way to be affected by, complete and utter morons seems to have been put in jeopardy. Stop this willful destruction of American morality and restore my rights at once!
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - RgrF - 08-05-2012
Screw it. You have no rights, you're an alien resident and a Brit to boot. :aus:
(for whatever reason the powers that be felt a need for an Oz flag and since it incorporates the Union Jack it'll just have to suffice. Canucks apparently don't count at all when it comes to MR emoticons. )
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - Manlove - 08-05-2012
Many's the time that I almost used that emoticon, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it!
(But my daughter and wife are 'Muricans so I'll post this one for them...:patriot: )
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - decay - 08-05-2012
I'm OK with a short time of silence for those who want to pray, or those who want to meditate, or just have some quiet time for thoughts.
no mandatory prayers... against the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - Ted King - 08-05-2012
With reference to all the parts that ostensibly would make it legal for there to public school activities where some people must listen to other people individually and collectively express prayer - if God knows what's in the hearts and minds of the prayer speakers then it isn't for him that the prayers are felt to be needed to be said in those settings. Public prayers in those settings are for social purposes. If the public school sanctions the activity of which the prayer is a part, then the school is sanctioning those religious social purposes.
With reference to the parts that ostensibly are there to allow students to express their religious beliefs in assignments (and, I presume, class discussions) and opt out of assignments they think go against their beliefs - what a friggin nightmare that one would be for teacher to try to do. The unintended consequences of those parts would be large in scope and intensity.
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - mattkime - 08-05-2012
long division is a tool of the devil!
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - Chakravartin - 08-05-2012
graylocks wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
so a man and a woman joining together produces an intersexed child. fuzzy math if you ask me...
'Depends what you're drinking.
Re: The Right to Pray, and the oppressed 80% majority - Lemon Drop - 08-05-2012
I don't see this amendment surviving a court challenge. Which is all the more reason the state shouldn't be wasting resources on stuff like this. Missouri lags the nation is nearly every measure of economic well-being, low educational attainment of its citizens being of primary concern.
Moves like this are simply steps in the wrong direction.