The lawsuit contends school officials removed Smalkowski's daughter from the girls basketball team in November 2004 after she refused to participate in a recitation of the Lord's Prayer at the coach's direction. They used false accusations as a pretext for the move, the lawsuit states.Sadly, evangelical Christians all over the country probably think the coach and the school system were just trying to bear witness to their faith.
What kind of testimony is this? How does it square with the command to stop standing on street corners to trumpet your prayers, but go to a closet and pray in secret?
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Just a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T would have gone a long way with that coach. Something his is supposed to instill in his players.
One reason I am so much a defender of church/state separation is that, even though the school prayer court decisions had already been passed, my grade school ignored them. They tried to intimidate a young Jewish kid into praying the Lord's Prayer. I told my father and he called in the ACLU--and our house was egged and Dad nearly lost his job.
When conservatives tell me that there are no theocratic tendencies in their movement--I know better.
Nothing ever stopped me from praying silently in school--and now kids can easily meet in after school clubs, etc. But we MUST stop this religious bullying.
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