10/12/11

I found an article online, Small Church Asks Supreme Court a Bit Question: Can Churches Worship in Public Schools? And my initial reaction to just reading the headline is no way. The United States is built off separation of church and state. What would make you think that you could worship in public schools. Where have you been since America adopted this law. And why now all of a sudden want to try to worship in public schools. Then I started reading the article and it talks about worship services being held in public schools not so much with the students. They give the schools a small sum of money to have these services there. The issue here was that New York's rent is so high it is hard for churches to gather the money to get a house of worship. "Schools should be open to any religion," Hall told CP. "If you're going to rent out a school, don't single out a religion," is a quote from the article. If that is the case where any and everyone was renting out schools for services that would be okay in my mind. As long as they didn't keep things of their religion permanently in the school, they were just there for the cermemoy. As long as it wasn't during school hours and people who didn't want to be there from the school didn't have to be. As long as this was totally separate from the actual school and they were just using the school as a building, I think it would be okay. As long as it wasn't biased to any religion.