Comments on: Poll: Should educators be fined or jailed for offering prayer in public schools?

By: ajbroome

ajbroome — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:23:43 +0000

Someone should spend more time learning how to spell ‘prayers’ in a URL rather than advocating fiction as ‘a way of life’ too…

By: TL

TL — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:56:48 +0000

Jailed? Certainly not. Fined? Probably not. Fired? Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Damned poll authors.

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:21:23 +0000

While I don’t like the wording in that context, I think the answer is a resounding yes. When teachers grossly violate the law like that, I believe they should be punished for it. I think a reprimand is appropriate for the first time, possibly the second (depending on what exactly they did) but after that – fines for sure and if it is egregious enough, a night or two in jail might be just the thing.

Keep in mind that I feel exactly the same about an atheist teacher who decides to push an anti-religious position as well…

By: jj

jj — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:29:45 +0000

The poll is now at 62% for yes. I’m glad to see the poll has been Ladenated.

I hate to break the news to ya, but PZ posted it too. But since it was Greg who posted first, and spurred PZ to post, by the transitive property, anyone sent to the site by PZ was sent by Greg.

By: Gavinicus

Gavinicus — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:20:43 +0000

And let’s remember that the teacher voluntarily submitted to the court order. It was part of a settlement of the original civil case.

By: fireweaver

fireweaver — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:37:25 +0000

As I write, it is 86.4% yes, 13.6% no.

By: noel

noel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:08:29 +0000

I think the wording was intentionally inflamatory – you know: liberals want to make prayer a crime, Christians are discriminated against, blah, blah, blah. Funny that it’s backfiring.

By: JefFlyingV

JefFlyingV — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:13:02 +0000

The poll is now at 62% for yes. I’m glad to see the poll has been Ladenated.

By: SQB

SQB — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:10:41 +0000

Now even better. Any chance you can transclude it here?

By: SQB

SQB — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:55:39 +0000

Now at 48.7% yes vs. 51.3% no. I could read the comments just a minute ago, but they seem to be behind a login now. Good analogy, Greg, but I think you should’ve dumbed it down and used more CAPS and exclamation marks!!!! if you wanted it read. (Actually, I do that sometimes for our local eBay equivalent. I have a feeling it works, but I haven’t gathered data on it.)