Separation of Church and State

A lot of people have taken this to mean that people can’t pray in school or in Government building or any place that is owned by the Government. I think all it means is you can’t force anybody to participate in any religious programs anywhere and that the Government will not endorse a certain religion but at the same time the Government can’t restrict a certain religion.

People should not be forced to pray in school or anywhere else but what gives the school a right to deny that person the opportunity to pray if they want to. If a group of students want to get together and pray and make banners to hang up at a football game with scripture on it, well why should they not be able to because one or two students feel offended by it. I think that by stopping this group of students from expressing their views they are violating their 1st

Amendment rights, the government prohibiting them from their religions freedom and also their freedom of speech. The school is not forcing anybody to make the banners so how is this a case of separation of Church and state.

My real point here is why is it that in America today a few people who get offended stop what another group wants to do. What if one day a group of 10 students at the University of Alabama are offended by the brutality and worship of Alabama Football. These 10 students go and file a law suite against the University of Alabama that the game of football offends them and they do not want a state run University supporting it. If this were to happen everybody would say “ don’t go to the game, nobody is forcing you to watch it”. But there are sign’s up all over town advertising Alabama football. So what I am getting at is should these 10 students being offended by the game of football ruin it for the thousands who really enjoy it.

So should a few students who are offended by a banner at a football game win and infringe on the rights of the other students who want the banner.  These few students should be told “don’t look at them ignore them”. There are things all over TV and in magazines that offend me so I do not read those magazines or watch those shows.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say there must be a separation of church and state. Its states that the government will not establish a religion or prohibit the free exercise of a religion. In my opinion I think that when the government tells kids or grown ups that they can’t practice their religion by hanging up banners at high school football games, they are breaking their 1st

Amendment rights, the kids are not breaking the rights of others. I will say again that I do not think anybody should be forced to attend church or any prayer group at school, but you should not stop the ones that want to attend for the fear of offending the few. I really do not see how a scripture from the bible or people praying can offend anybody.