We signed the "Keep Prayer in Church and Out of Public Schools" petition!
# 36:
8:33 pm PST, Nov 20,Dody Bush, Arkansas
# 35:
11:00 pm PST, Nov 18,Matthew Redding, Oregon
Religion doesn't belong in the public school system. That is why there is a choice to go to a private school in which could incorporate religion. But if the government is involved in the school, then religion should not be taught.
# 34:
5:31 am PST, Nov 16,N Welch, Florida
Seperation of church and state
# 33:
4:52 am PST, Nov 12,Allanna Linville, Texas
# 32:
8:57 pm PST, Nov 11,Dick Artley, Idaho
Prayer is a waste of time. We should not allow our children to waste time in school.
# 31:
11:06 am PST, Nov 11,Celene Chen, Massachusetts
# 30:
8:40 pm PST, Nov 10,Amanda Luther, Pennsylvania
No one should have to participate in worship to a deity that is not their own. Keep it at moment of silence.
# 29:
11:29 pm PST, Nov 9,Pam Boland, Georgia
# 28:
2:05 pm PST, Nov 9,Wendy Banks, Arizona
# 27:
12:07 pm PST, Nov 9,Name not displayed, California
# 26:
8:18 pm PST, Nov 8,Jenny Chilson, Wisconsin
# 25:
5:31 pm PST, Nov 8,Melanie West, California
To whom it may concern:
I am a teacher. I am not a member of any church/mosque/synagogue and neither are my children. My husband and I instruct them in our Faith system. I do not WANT a public school teacher putting in his/her two cents' worth, I do NOT want the public school system deciding what is right or wrong as far as religious education is concerned. I believe in the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION which GUARANTEES the SEPARATION of CHURCH and STATE
# 24:
11:55 am PST, Nov 8,David Romportl, Minnesota
# 23:
11:12 am PST, Nov 8,Kathy Saunders, Maryland
# 22:
10:33 am PST, Nov 8,Aneliese Krulicki, Canada
# 21:
9:12 am PST, Nov 8,Paige Cater, Texas
# 20:
3:02 am PST, Nov 8,Name not displayed, Oregon
# 19:
2:34 am PST, Nov 8,Roderick Salisbury, New York
Absolutely - recitation of prayer in public schools is wrong, and violates the rights of non-believers and pagans. I also has nothing to do with the education of the pubic, and everything to do with forced assimilation into a narrow world-view.
# 18:
2:16 am PST, Nov 8,Name not displayed, Oregon
# 17:
5:02 pm PST, Nov 7,Julie Zserdin, Tennessee
prayer needs to be kept in church or home or in silent prayer by a student. reicited prayers are useless anyway.
# 16:
1:43 pm PST, Nov 7,Joyce Wheeler, Oregon
# 15:
10:01 am PST, Nov 7,Erika Nelson, Texas
# 14:
10:41 am PST, Nov 6,Name not displayed, South Dakota
# 13:
10:05 am PST, Nov 6,Carole Hagen, Oregon
# 12:
5:24 am PST, Nov 6,Jan Billy Pedersen, Denmark
I back Your petition 100%, Church and PUBLIC schools should in NO WAY be connected. In my homecountry Denmark, this has been the fact for years, although we at the moment are experiencing Nationalist christians (in government) trying to get obligatory morning psalm song in PUBLIC schools, but we are many that will fight them all the way.
# 11:
5:56 pm PST, Nov 5,Name not displayed, Virginia
As an atheist, school-sponsored prayer would make me feel extremely uncomfortable :( It's bad enough that there is prevalent prejudice against nonreligious people, I don't want to be singled out every day just because I choose not to believe what most of my classmates believe.
# 10:
4:41 pm PST, Nov 5,Joan Joesting, Florida
# 9:
10:25 am PST, Nov 5,Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 8:
10:12 am PST, Nov 5,Bill C, Germany
# 7:
9:00 am PST, Nov 5,Andrea Senci, Serbia And Montenegro
# 6:
3:00 am PST, Nov 5,David N Moore, Connecticut
# 5:
2:05 am PST, Nov 5,Steve Klein, Virginia
# 4:
1:42 am PST, Nov 5,Rev Zak Zennii, Pennsylvania
# 3:
7:32 pm PST, Nov 4,Laura Bell, Indiana
# 2:
6:37 pm PST, Nov 4,Kris Wirth, Idaho
separate church and state
# 1:
5:44 pm PST, Nov 4,Name not displayed, Georgia
I grew up in the 40's and 50's in a small Tennessee Community where religion was very much in the schools; only it wasn't my religion. I was not comfortable with many of the prayers and talks. Only the fundamentalist groups were involved in school. There was required attendance at prayer meetings where there were even calls to the altar. Efforts from fundamentalist students to change my way of seeing God and Jesus were daily in the 9th. grade. Thankfully we moved to a large town in Florida after that. My 3rd. grade teacher sponsored an opportunity to go to camp by memorizing 300 Bible verses. I did so and spent a very miserable week being constantly bombarded by propaganda. I thought then and still do that the Episcopalians had a much better understanding of the true meaning of Jesus' second commandment! Most of the values taught by churches are good. However, children will not learn them because of prayer in the school. Even though I went to Sunday School and church weekly, the reason the values took was my parents' living them. I support a moment of silent prayer or reflection. This reflects everyone's religious orientation, even the atheist or agnostic
