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Originally Posted by JohnScott
Who said that you should be forced to say the Lord's Prayer?
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Nobody forces you to say anything, but you are forced to hear it. Time is taken out of your day for it whether it's your religion or not.
When in high school (a public school, not separate) they would say a prayer every morning over the P.A. system. One of my best friends in high school was a Buddhist. She had to sit there every day and listen to a Catholic prayer, never to hear one of hers. There was a considerable Arabic population at the school that certainly never heard any mention of their religion either.
If you are going to include God in a public school, then it should not be one single God that is recognized.
And I can only imagine the uproar that would ensue if they were to make an attempt at reciting Islamic prayers or passages from the Koran, or any other religion.
Therefore, if you will not recognize other religions then none should be. It is not fair for those who are not of that same faith.
Anyone stands up and says that they don't want their child being forced to say "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance or the Lord's Prayer there are cries of blasphemy and that it's their right to say their prayers in school. Suggest another religion be allowed the same right and those same people are up in arms again calling blasphemy.