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Originally Posted by molly00000
... no one has the right to make the other person pray if he is not willing.
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Absolutely correct. In the prior discussion (and in the historical case we were discussing), nobody was being forced to do anything they didn't want to (e.g. pray). Of course the argument went that even though nobody was forced to pray, some people felt that students might feel left out, uncomfortable, pressured or offended by the prayer which is why it was ultimately stopped.
This is why I brought up the question. If there is a "right" to not be offended, then banning school prayer is reasonable. If there isn't such a right, then why are we are we making decisions based on the possibility of offending people? Certainly people shouldn't go out of their way to offend, but should another person's offense be justification for limiting our own freedoms?
-- Jeff