From: pepke@dirac.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
Subject: Re: Societal basis for morality
Organization: Florida State University, but I don't speak for them
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In article <merlyn.735422443@digibd> merlyn@digibd.digibd.com (Merlyn LeRoy) writes:
>Prayer in school is legal; what is illegal is telling children
>what to pray, or not to pray.  Many people confuse "you can't
>tell kids that they ought to pray now" with "kids aren't allowed
>to pray", possibly because so few kids do so without being told.

Or perhaps it's because they think that all governmental bodies should be in
the business of suppressing all beliefs other than their own, or else they're
some sort of Satanic Humanist Conspiracy.

It's the old "if you're not for us you're against us" bit.

-EMP
