As a general rule I believe the left tries to push the secularization angle a little harder than the constitition requires, but this is clearly over the line. (If the story is accurate.)
Christian Revival at School Prompts Student Walkout in W.Va.
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Here in OK, the Repugs and the Repug governor, Kevin Stitt, are trying to get vouchers for religious schools. I call him “Stitt for Brains”. The Gov, his wealthy friends, and the Repug legislature send their kids to private schools, often religious, so of course they want the financial benefit for themselves.
If we have vouchers for secular schools, I can accept vouchers for religious schools, but there should be some kind of rules they have to follow. For instance, I don’t even have a problem if they taught “religion” and it was a required course. Required “worship”, IDK. But, my kids went to a private Christian school. There was a religion requirement for entrance into the school. That is something I would be opposed to. That school would only let evangelicals of a certain stripe into it. If you’re getting vouchers, then I think that should be prohibited. If a Jew, Muslim, or atheist wants to attend your school which accepts state vouchers, then they should not be discriminated against.
That story from W Va is believable and atrocious.
When I graduated high school, they had some kind of optional prayer service the Sunday night before graduation. It was held in the high school auditorium. I don’t recall what the school called it. I didn’t want to go. Was forced to go by my RC parents who went also, but who never went to church…well, sometimes Christmas and Easter. The service had ministers, a priest, and a rabbi speak and pray. I still don’t know what the point of it was. I guess some people felt better.
QUOTE: When I graduated high school, they had some kind of optional prayer service the Sunday night before graduation.
Wow, I almost forgot about this. We had a similar baccalaureate service prior to HS graduation. I don’t remember it being optional and it was held in a church building. It didn’t occur to me back then that this indeed could be a challenge for Jewish or non-religious families. It was considered tradition, despite it being a public school. Funny thing, we were one of those non-religious families, at that time. Yet, as I recall, there wasn’t any type of kerfuffle about having such a event sponsored by the school. How times have changed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccalaureate_service
Those baccalaureate services in public schools seem to have vanished sometime between when I graduated in 1983, and when my oldest graduated in 2009. I don’t have the foggiest idea when, though, because I didn’t pay any attention to high school graduations in the intervening years.
I can’t remember whether I went to mine or not — I probably did as I was a church goer and my parents believed in encouraging religion although they didn’t really make time for church themselves, but I have absolutely no memory of it.