tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post8881162413021782281..comments2024-01-01T15:35:12.954-07:00Comments on Simple Utah Mormon Politics: Banning Prayer in Public SchoolsFrank Stahelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822334061980912687noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-31084099923550080452006-11-21T12:44:00.000-07:002006-11-21T12:44:00.000-07:00Great piece of semantics, but one of the intervent...Great piece of semantics, but one of the interventions is in perfect alignment with the Constitution. They other is in perfect violation of the same.Cliffs Blogger Profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870786312032628979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-61269502244742004792006-11-20T19:59:00.000-07:002006-11-20T19:59:00.000-07:00It has nothing to do with government intervention,...It has nothing to do with government intervention, and everything to do with more home and family influence on their children's education. <br /><br />Government's only involvement is to keep track, if the student and his parents so desire, the student's preference for religious devotion.<br /><br />We've done a good job "intervening", if you'd like to use that term, in getting children of different races to respect each other. My suggestion would provide the same improvement in relationships between people of different religions.Frank Stahelihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01822334061980912687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-25029291010377882642006-11-20T19:52:00.000-07:002006-11-20T19:52:00.000-07:00SOunds like an excellent recipe for more governmen...SOunds like an excellent recipe for more government intervention.<br /><br />Can't we just leave religion to the home and family?Cliffs Blogger Profilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870786312032628979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-64216222052505141352006-11-20T19:36:00.000-07:002006-11-20T19:36:00.000-07:00You're right about some of your concerns. It woul...You're right about some of your concerns. It wouldn't at least initially be easy to get something like this going, because in a way similar to growing democracy in Iraq, it's something that the public school children wouldn't be used to.<br /><br /><br />But over time it would engender a healthy public debate and a better understanding of our differences.<br /><br />The whole idea of bringing religious preferences into the open is to show that they are not as different or strange as we may have supposed, and this in itself would have a tendency to reduce teasing.Frank Stahelihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01822334061980912687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25646979.post-26814850436329701142006-11-20T18:15:00.000-07:002006-11-20T18:15:00.000-07:00My first impression of your idea is favorable. You...My first impression of your idea is favorable. You mentioned that kids wouldn't be forced to participate. I think there would be a substantial portion of the religious kids that would choose not to participate just because of shyness. And, even though you believe there will be a general decrease in bullying and teasing, I expect that there would definitely be teasing of kids whose mode of worship is significantly different from the regional norm. <br /><br />Furthermore, trying to track the religious preferences of all the children in a classroom would bring its own set of challenges: privacy, bookkeeping, differing views of parents, etc.Bradley Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06030210881782328907noreply@blogger.com