Moment of Silence found unconstitutional

[RetiredGySgt]

Aside from promoting prayer, what is the purpose of the MOS? Any student can say a prayer to himself at any time and any place and no one will know. Why does it have to be a group affair and have a special time set aside for it?
There is no motive for the MOS except a religious one.

A moment of silence can be used to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself for the coming school day.

 

[dilloduck]

Who you callin' an atheist? I'm born again.

The athiests filed the suit, silly.

 

[Sky Dancer]

A moment of silence can be used to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself for the coming school day.

Bush's wiretaps were unconstitutional. Can't the ACLU do something useful with Constitutional issues?

 

[dilloduck]

Bush's wiretaps were unconstitutional. Can't the ACLU do something useful with Constitutional issues?

sure but wiretaps ain't on their agenda.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Bush's wiretaps were unconstitutional. Can't the ACLU do something useful with Constitutional issues?

Actually they were not Unconstitutional at all.

 

[Sky Dancer]

Actually they were not Unconstitutional at all.

Plenty of Bush's executive orders were. My point is a moment of silence is not the place to focus on Constitutional issues.


For more on the Consitutitional record of GWB:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/powersurge_healy_lynch.pdf

 

[Modbert]

A moment of silence can be used to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself for the coming school day.

I'll let you know when I meet one person my age who feels the same way.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I don't see how it "amounted to a government endorsement of religion".

mandating? but there are more than one kind of mandates aren't there? conservatives are all over the place with mandates and wide stances and all of that stuff.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Thank God we have the ACLU to protect us all from the lurking menace of silence.

government mandating people be silent? hmmm, what's next thought control?

 

[dilloduck]

government mandating people be silent? hmmm, what's next thought control?

We already have that---public schools and TV

 

[Dorkazoid_Jones]

with all kinds of objections to any kind of accomodation for christians. Since when did it make sense to pay any heed to the chronically offended?? Why don't we just have ceilings that are only 6 feet high so we don't offend short people in governemnt buidlings? Why don't we only have scales in government buildings that only go to 200 lbs so we don't offend fat people. Why don't we do away with electricity since that probably offends environmental kooks. Let's just come up with the whiniest most neurotic people in society and then let them tell us the blizzard of assinine things we are supposed to think. Yeah that makes sense!!!

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

How about a nanosecond of silence? Would that be less offensive? More principled? Too PC? Too compromised?

A minute is such a looooonnnnngggggg time.

Lawyers must not have enough to do.

mandating?

 

[dilloduck]

with all kinds of objections to any kind of accomodation for christians. Since when did it make sense to pay any heed to the chronically offended?? Why don't we just have ceilings that are only 6 feet high so we don't offend short people in governemnt buidlings? Why don't we only have scales in government buildings that only go to 200 lbs so we don't offend fat people. Why don't we do away with electricity since that probably offends environmental kooks. Let's just come up with the whiniest most neurotic people in society and then let them tell us the blizzard of assinine things we are supposed to think. Yeah that makes sense!!!

Whoa---don't give em any ideas !!

 

[Dorkazoid_Jones]

The Obama administration is probably writing these things down right now. It will be part of a stimulus package. Just think how many people they could hire to monitor, ahem, hate speech! In other words, anyone who disagrees with a left wing wacko...