> This brings up a question I've sometimes wondered about: do the polls on
> public school prayer break it out into Protestant-vs.-Catholic?
> Catholics were historically opposed to prayer in public schools in the
> United States, because the prayers were inevitably Protestant prayers.
> My own parents, who were raised as Catholics, talked about how they were
> instructed not to say the Lord's Prayer in school, since it ended with
> that "For the kingdom and the power . . . " stuff, which was a
> Protestant add-on. I imagine nowadays the Latin-Mass nostalgics are
> making common cause with the speaking-in-tongues crowd who just a few
> decades ago would have said in public that the Pope is the Antichrist.
It would also be interesting to know where Protestants stand on the issue. Several years ago I was talking to my fundamentalist Lutheran mother issue about this issue and she said that she was against prayer in public schools. Why? Because she was worried that the "wrong" prayer would be forced on children.
In other words, if activists want to split, divide and sabotage the religious right on this issue, point out to people that prayer in public schools could easily involve prayers from other religions.
Chuck0