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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 2:08pmSanction this postReply
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That is amazing, Luke. I went through public elementary school during the early 60's, (in Detroit) and I don't ever remember having to pray during lunch, or any time at all.


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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 3:33pmSanction this postReply
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Oh, I also recall my third grade teacher sneaking us back to the classroom early from lunch one day to read us a Bible story in a darkened classroom. It was a New Testament passage about Satan tempting Jesus in the wilderness. Ha! Good ol' Mrs. Herman. She made Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter look rational by contrast.

Imagine "The Andy Griffith Show" populated with redneck versions of Archie and Edith Bunker and you might start to grasp much of rural America then and now.

Claremont, North Carolina, had roughly 800 people then and 1100 now.

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 4/29, 3:34pm)


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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 3:41pmSanction this postReply
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The Supreme Court found such practices unconstitutional in the early 60s.  You (in practice, your parents) would have had a very good case a decade later.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 4:18pmSanction this postReply
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Ha! My parents would be the last persons on Earth to file a suit. My mother played church organ for decades and made sure I sang in the youth choir and got confirmed. My dad gave me a hard spanking at church when I was little for bad behavior in Sunday school. Anyone who wanted to file a suit would have been run out of town, tarred and feathered, by the Claremont tribalists.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 7:55pmSanction this postReply
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McCollum v. Board of Education Dist. 71, 333 U.S. 203 (1948)
Court finds religious instruction in public schools a violation of the establishment clause and therefore unconstitutional.

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state/decisions.html

In 1958 and 1959, we said The Lord's Prayer in our public school.  It was Cleveland, Ohio.  Atheism was equated with communism. ... and yet,  here we all are today...

School Lunch Prayer: "Jesus Christ, I hope this food doesn't make me sick."


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