Christian Prayer Ban
Back in November, U.S. District Judge David Hamilton ruled that invocation prayer must not advance any religion.
Indiana legislators spoke unanimously (83-0) to support freedom of prayer in the state’s House of Representatives on Monday in a landslide vote. The resolution does not carry the force of law though.
“[The order] attempts to control the content of prayer, this order undermines the rights of all Hoosiers regardless of their theological convictions,” is an excerpt of the resolution.
Members have been gathering to pray at the rear of the legislative chamber before official meetings since the 2006 House session began. They say this has been a tradition in Indiana for 189 years.
Full story at The Christian Post
Moneybags said,
February 17, 2006 @ 3:01 pm
I see no problem with optional prayer in schools. If you don’t want to pray then don’t, but that shouldn’t prevent people that would like to pray from doing so.
Larry Stevens said,
March 27, 2006 @ 12:59 pm
Moneybags said,
“I see no problem with optional prayer in schools. If you don’t want to pray then don’t, but that shouldn’t prevent people that would like to pray from doing so.”
however this had nothing to do with the article, nor is this the case anywhere in the US. No one is trying to ban prayer. There a hundreds of opportunity to pray everyday. Prays are personal anyways. The arguement here is that prayer should not be state or governent sponsored and if prayer is the tradition then maybe the state could sponsor a “moment of silence” then everyone can personally pray to thier personal god and those who don’t want to pray can quitely reflect on what they ate for dinner the night before”
Simple if you ask me, problem solved.