>AFAIC, it's unconstitutional for school games. It's also wrong.
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>That's upsurd. Show me where in the constitution where it says a group of students cannot voluntarily join together and pray before a came. I emphasise voluntarily here bceause that's exactly what this was - people choose to excersice their first ammendment right to pray whenever and wherever they want. This was not a city/league organized or sactioned event.
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>So how exactly is this wrong???
What you quoted from me above wasn't about the story we're now discussing. It was about school games, and particularly _public_ school games.
Kids can individually and, in small groups, choose to pray together. No problem there. The issue is when it's a team activity or led by an adult who's involved with the team. Then there's an issue of coercion, whether real or implied.
I think there's a gray area when it's, say, the team captain leading the prayer, since that also has a whiff of coercion.
Tamar
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