[ATOMIC_PUNK]

ITS ONLY A MINUTE BUT ITS A START !!!

[Isadora Duncan]

Definitely a start . . . but God never left. He is always there. WE'RE the ones who leave, not Him.

[Jean S]

“It's the longest 60 seconds of the day,” said Darner, a Democrat from Arlington. “But we do it because the law says we have to.”

This is pitiful.

[Rome2000]

“These bills were clearly something that was a popular first response to the crisis in our nation,” said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

Just who exactly besides Herr Lynn are members of "Americans United for the Separation of Church and State"?.

Those that aren't bona fide marxists, atheists, and satan worshippers are probably busy switching to the GOP.

[Salvation]

Many modeled their laws after Virginia's, which makes the moment mandatory and lists prayer as an option.

A bump for prayer, even if it is a silent minute.

The Supreme Court was wrong on this, because it is a matter of free speech not religion vs. state.

[lizma]

This reminds of when Virginia did it.

Pravda on the Potomac (The Wash Post) did a piece basically praising the kids who were offended. To paraphrase one kid "I'm Jewish and this a "Christian moment of silence" so I find it offensive.

If my kid's grow up to be that idiotic, please shoot me.

[deadhead]

My cousin is a teacher in Columbus, Ohio. I will give her a call to chat about this.

[Ligeia]

Karen Darner, an elementary schoolteacher and a Virginia House delegate, said many of her fellow teachers see the minute as just one more thing teachers must include in their already full days.

This must be a liberal newspaper. According to a poll in a Richmond, Virginia newspaper, the Moment of Silence has about 80% support among Virginians. The only comment the reporter could find was against the MOS, and from the most liberal member of the House of Delegates? Nothing "fair and balanced" there. During the General Assembly session, whenever I wanted to know what the most extreme wing of the Democratic party was up to, I checked on the bills Darner had introduced or co-sponsored. Stay the course, Ohio.

[max61]

A tad assumptive wouldn't you say to think that this time will be used to "pray" and even more assumptive to think that those prayers will be to G-d. Wishful thinking is pretty much a waste of time, but then again, we are talking about public schools. Maybe we should start legislating mandated instructional time during church services, couldn't hurt.

---max

[Lancey Howard]

“When educators set aside a time for reflection, that's not just providing the opportunity, that's encouraging prayer,” bellowed Raymond Vasvari, legal director of the Ohio branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. "Prayer! We at the ACLU will never rest until all of America's children are godless wards of a socialist state," he added angily. Vasvari said that the issue would be a top priority of the ACLU along with securing the right of homeless people to openly view and download child pornography at elementary school libraries. "Our work here on behalf of the Democrat Party is never done."

[highenergyzone]

One Moment... Please

Wisdom and knowledge begins with the Lord and ends outside the schoolhouse door. www.HezSez.com

[Buggman]

“When educators set aside a time for reflection, that's not just providing the opportunity, that's encouraging prayer,” said Raymond Vasvari, legal director of the Ohio branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.

And yet, passing out condoms does nothing to encourage teenage sex.

Yours in Truth,

[DarkWaters]

Do not get too excited. This state's educational quality is less than stellar to say the least. There are far to many leftists and Marxists intrenched within the system especially in the main metropolitan areas(Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland(the worst of them all), Toledo, Akron-Canton area, just to name a few). If there is away to bypass it or use it to their advantage they will. We need moral clarity before we can get prayer back in. This bill fails to do that.

[DittoJed2]

Ohio prayer bump!

[3catsanadog]

“When educators set aside a time for reflection, that's not just providing the opportunity, that's encouraging prayer,” said Raymond Vasvari, legal director of the Ohio branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The ACLU would know, since they spend so much time contemplating their own navals. I guess that's a religious activity to them.

[L.N. Smithee]

Critics argue that such laws still threaten the Constitution's separation of religion and government. “When educators set aside a time for reflection, that's not just providing the opportunity, that's encouraging prayer,” said Raymond Vasvari, legal director of the Ohio branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.

What a crock. It is in statements like this that the ACLU's true agenda is revealed. They make you believe that what they are worried about is children being forced to pray in a certain way and by a particular person, and then you hear the truth -- they're against prayer period.

[HiTech RedNeck]

“It's the longest 60 seconds of the day,” said Darner, a Democrat from Arlington. “But we do it because the law says we have to.”

Is this teacher as hyper as the children?