This is being made something much more then it needs to be it is simply a group of wrestlers huddling around for maybe 3 minutes praying then going about there buisness trust me Contrarian and C B the world is not coming to an end a lightning bolt will not strike them in the middle of the mats why sit here and destroy something great that young teenagers started! Maybe you should talk to the young man who started this program because he has the upmost respect for everyones beliefs.
First, I think last year the initial mention of this activity was by a parent--I think who is/was also a preacher, who was directing his kid, Michael VL, in organizing all this.
Second, I do not object to prayer in or on the public school, as long as it is done in the proper way. Why can it not be done away from the wrestling arena, in a designated area perhaps a hallway, a class room, in a private and personal manner. All approved by a school official. I do object in the way it is being organized and publicized--it is not now a private, personal prayer free of cohersion.
I surely am no preacher, Chief Renegade would agree, but I think that Christians actively believe they have to publicly demonstrate their piety. Public 'witnessing" or testifying" to them is the highest demonstration of the expression of their reliigion. Not only do they personally do it, but if they can include, by force of words actions, etc., others to participate, then they may be be able to accomplish the ultimate relious coup---the conversion of a non believer. I rember Brother Daniels at the end of the service in the Baptist Church I attended with my grandfather 60 years ago---his white hair flowing, eyes sparking, sweating like a ................, thumping the bible and yelling "its in the book", and then saying over and over "come on down". Modern day religion is bland and not like the old days. In those days you had to be first chastized and then uplifted.
