So…where then do the limitations lie on prayer in our schools? Is it too much to ask to let a child pray before each day if he or she chooses to do so? Maybe not. But, I think that it would be too much to ask to institutionalize a prayer that is clearly based on religions promoting God. But what about morals and the importance that religion plays in socializing a child to make sound judgments of right and wrong? Well, isn't that up to the parent? If an Islamic child is being brought up in an Islamic family, with Islamic ideals and Islamic morals, then where is the justice in having that child go to a school where Christian beliefs are upheld? I firmly believe that the only validity that lies in the communitarian argument here is that the vast majority of those children in our schools are Christian. The communitarian believes that the Christian foundations are the ones that hold the community together, and they are the ones that cultivate the "Good." This is far too ambiguous and abstract to look at with impartial eyes. The word "good" is relative in itself, is it not? What is one man's verse is another man's lyric, so the saying goes. God is good. God is nonexistent. God is fake. Opinions abound! How can one take any one of them and apply them to fit the needs of the "Good?" In closing, I think that it is scary more than anything to see our government, one that is supposed to be set in justice and ruling in impartiality, so blatantly consider such an act. The basis for what reveres freedom needs to be looked at closely, for I fear infringement on our rights is inevitable if we don't take the time to try and find acts like this that might jeopardize our sovereignty.
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