Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!mauney From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Prayer in schools and WHY Message-ID: <2497@ncsu.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 10:17:20 EST Article-I.D.: ncsu.2497 Posted: Thu Feb 9 10:17:20 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 04:49:50 EST References: <198@mi-eec.UUCP>, <623@ihuxp.UUCP> Organization: N.C. State University, Raleigh Lines: 25 I propose the following, completely equitable, solution to the prayer-in-school problem: Each state will draw up a list of the major religions of the world, including Catholic Protestant Jewish Moslem Buddhist Hindu Shinto Bahai Atheist Every public school will then have a 5 minute observance every day of the next religion on list, in strict rotation. If a pupil feels that his religion is left out, he may petition the school to add it to the list. Such petitions will be auto- matically granted unless the pupil's religion is a sect of a religion already represented. Fine points, such as whether Snake-Handling Fundamentalists are a Protestant sect, or whether Unitarians are just dressed up Agnostics, will be decided in court, like all other hard questions. Like I said, this plan is totally fair, and the fact that the loudmouth Moral Pejority types will get to hear their kind of prayer only 10% of the time ... well, that's just the way the ball bounces. -- _Doctor_ Jon Mauney, mcnc!ncsu!mauney \__Mu__/ North Carolina State University