(November 20, 2014 at 4:45 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Jenny, I know it's a gray area for some people and pretty black and white for others, but what do you think about the hubbub over students using prayer/god in a graduation address? I can't recall the specifics but there was a small hubbub about this happening in the south somewhere. As far as I'm concerned as long as the school didn't force him/her into talking about god, and it's not the teachers doing it, it's fine.
That's my opinion, and it's the current state of the Department of Education guidelines, provided that the school doesn't suggest the students do more than politely listen. Ask students to bow their heads and you've crossed a line. Having the kids run for the right to speak though and including prayer in their platform, and you've got a real gray mess.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
