Thank you, bc791.

The link included this nugget: "The right to engage in voluntary prayer or religious discussion free from discrimination does not include the right to have a captive audience listen or to compel other students to participate. Teachers and school administrators should ensure that no student is in any way coerced to participate in religious activity."

murph wrote: "There are references to Christianity in many, many "PUBLIC", government buildings throughout this country...the Supreme Court building has carvings of Moses and The Ten Commandments"

The following are also on the Supreme Court building and in the courtroom itself: Moses, Confucious and Solon along with: Willam Blackstone Charlemagne Draco Hugo Grotius Hammurabi King John Justinian Lycurgus John Marshall Louis IX Menes Mohammed Moses Napoleon Octavian Solomon

Hey, Mohammed is depicted on the wall! I guess that makes us a Muslim nation, huh?

Quick note for those who say that Moses appearing on the Supreme Court building means that our country was founded on Judeo-Christianity: The figure holds two tablets, but the ten commandments are not inscribed on them. Also on the same outside sculpture is Confucious and Solon. Does that mean that we're actually a Confucian country, or a Helenic Greek country? Inside the Supreme Courtroom is another frieze showing Moses, Confucious and Solon again, along with: Willam Blackstone Charlemagne Draco Hugo Grotius Hammurabi King John Justinian Lycurgus John Marshall Louis IX Menes Mohammed Moses Napoleon Octavian Solomon

The designer of the frieze stated that the tablet bearing the Roman Numerals I-X represents the Bill of Rights. The commandments seen on the tablets carried by Moses here are those that are not religious (do not steal, do not kill, etc).

Now...if Mohammed is up there, does that make us a Muslim country? Napoleon - what does that make us? A military dictatorship? How about all those pagan Romans?

Also, nobody has answered the questions I posed yesterday:

Are all the cheerleaders Christian? Would the cheerleaders be willing to have a non-Christian member of the team? What if a non-Christian member of the cheerleading squad decided she didn't like the bible-banners - would the rest of them be willing to stop the practice? Would they be willing to make a motivational banner representing that cheerleader's religion?

Say, for instance, that the whole cheerleading squad decided to become Wiccan. Would everyone who supports them putting bible verses on the banners be as supportive if the painted a large pentacle?

I'm just wondering if you're supporting them because it's tradition, because it's their idea, or because it's Christian. Just for a moment, read the supportive quotes in the article in the context of the above scenario.

Just a couple of questions, to play the "Devil's Advocate"...

Are all the cheerleaders Christian? Would the cheerleaders be willing to have a non-Christian member of the team? What if a non-Christian member of the cheerleading squad decided she didn't like the bible-banners - would the rest of them be willing to stop the practice? Would they be willing to make a motivational banner representing that cheerleader's religion?

Say, for instance, that the whole cheerleading squad decided to become Wiccan. Would everyone who supports them putting bible verses on the banners be as supportive if the painted a large pentacle?

I'm just wondering if you're supporting them because it's tradition, because it's their idea, or because it's Christian. Just for a moment, read the supportive quotes in the article in the context of the above scenario.