Two Florida school officials won't go to jail for praying

[kandrathe]

I think we all agree that people may think or believe what they want. Our difference in opinion is that you don't consider a prayer to be annoying for other people. I personally don't get annoyed quickly but what about church bells, the asking to come to the service in a mosque using loudspeakers, the use of prayer or referring to God by politicians, the clear influence of religion on law (most clearly abortion and euthanasia but also gay marriage, shops having to stay closed on sundays etc.), religious people trying to influence children, the beeping out of certain words in TV shows and movies...etc.etc.etc. An atheist didn't ask for these things while everything he makes a remark about God not existing he will feel the wrath of the church over him. Religious people often don't seem to realize how much they influence how other people can live their life, and that seeing somebody pray in the open can be just as disturbing for others as using a swearword is for them.

And... Vice versa. That is part and parcel of free speech, and freedom of expression. You get Maplethorpe, Sex Pistols, Abu Izzadeen, and all the other expressions the bulk of society has found objectionable enough to attempt to suppress.

I remember on many of the debates we've had about kids on here, that the common advice was to not shield them from the world, but to teach them how to cope with the world. That was in relation to sex education as I recall. How is this not shielding the kids from something that is pretty mainstream in the culture? Now you are going to say their little impressionable minds will be confused?