jim
--- John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Doug Henwood quotes someone (Pittsburgh
> Tribune-Review, perhaps?):
>
> > She also points to the prohibition on prayer in
> school
>
> This "prohibition" is, of course, non-existent, but
> it's reported as if it
> were true. The ban is on public school-organized
> prayer.
>
> 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.
>
>
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