On 09-27-05, SUE ALEXANDER said to TIM RICHARDSON:

SA>TIM RICHARDSON wrote in a message to SUE ALEXANDER:

TR> If a group of people are going to start a religious program or begin
TR> praying, you do not have to take part if you choose not to and there
TR> is no penalty.


SA>Would you feel comfortable if you were stuck in a location where they
SA>started bashing God?


TR> I don't see how you could be *stuck* in a situation "where they
TR> started bashing God". Your feet work no matter *where* you are. All
TR> you have to do is get up and walk out.


SA>Even at school or work?  There are sometimes reasons that one would feel
SA>compelled to stay.


Yes...even at school or at work. You do not have to sit through such a
scenario in a school. If students are allowed to just get up and leave the
room when the other students want to say a prayer, they certainly can get up
and walk out when a `God-bashing' session begins, whether it be in a
classroom, or an auditorium during a school `assembly'.


As for work.....I have never heard of a job that includes `mandatory' `God
bashing' as a criteria for employment.


But in both cases, there is definitely recourse to the courts:


If a student does not `have' to submit to a school prayer, or saying anything
about `God' while in school, and employees at a place of employment are being
bombarded with religious material, or having religion `forced' on them...you
can bet some judge somewhere in the system would put an immediate stop to it.


Which, by the very implication, also makes the `reverse' true.



TR> You want to be an *atheist*? I have no problem with that. Believe
TR> whatever you choose. Who cares?


SA>I am actually not an atheist...


Well.....we have something in common. Because, actually, neither am I.




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