>Actually, the whole flap about trying to purge all references to a deity the FFs certainly saw in deistic rather than theistic terms seems like a lot of wheel spinning and ranks right up there with flag-burning ammendments and "defense of marriage" as exercises in sputtering righteousness.


I agree with you that other issues are far more important, but I've also been the little kid in school feeling even more like an outsider than usual as everyone around me sang "God Bless America," which I'd never before that day.

I'm just young enough to have missed prayer in school, but still encountered some vestiges of religious activity. I feel much more strongly about what happens in schools on this front than about what adults have to deal with.

Tamar