From: mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price)
Subject: Re: What part of "No" don't you understand?
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In <C60y12.E9J@panix.com> mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon) writes:

>In <1993Apr24.214843.10940@midway.uchicago.edu> eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu
>(E. Elizabeth Bartley) writes:

>>I can certainly see opposing the "Amen" -- but that doesn't require 
>>opposing a moment of silence.

>If the ONLY people proposing a "moment of silence" are doing so as a
>sham to sneak in prayers, then it MUST be opposed.  What the HELL have
>prayers to do with public schooling?  [I ask this question as a devout
>Christian.]

   Uh oh, Michael; you typed "hell" and capitalized it to boot! Now
Peter Nyikos will explain that you're not a real Christian!

>>>I'll back off when they do.

>>Does anybody else besides me see a vicious circle here?  I guarantee
>>you the people who want school prayer aren't going to back off when
>>they can't even manage to get a quiet moment for their kids to pray
>>silently.

>Their kids can bloody-well pray any God-damned time they WANT to.  And
>nothing, on heaven or earth, in government or the principal's office,
>can prevent or in any other way deal with their doing so.  *Especially*
>if the prayer is silent (as bursting out into the "Shema Yisrael" or
>some other prayer *might* be construed as disruptive if audible :-))
>No one ever prevented ME from praying in public school!  They hardly
>even prevented me from masturbating in study hall.

BZZT! Sorry Michael--the Nyikos Inquisition pointed out that I was
hell-bound after one mildly scurrilous pun on "revealing oneself."
Admitting to masturbation--well, I'm just shocked!

                                                                mp
