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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Prayer in schools and WHY
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 10:17:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 10:17:20 1984
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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