THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A group of high school students suspended for refusing to move their morning prayer group from school grounds has returned to class.
Heritage High School suspended 11 students Friday after they ignored repeated orders to move the prayer group from the busy student commons, assistant superintendent Bill Bentley said. The group is not registered as a student-led group.
Five of the students returned to class Monday and six completed a reduced suspension that allowed them to come back after three days Wednesday.
The suspensions were reduced after administrators talked with students' parents.
Several students and members of Vancouver's Church of Truth gathered Monday to pray on a sidewalk just off school grounds.
Megan Gaultier, one of five students assigned in-school detention Friday, said the prayer group would continue to meet outdoors to avoid further penalty.
If the students decide to formally register as a school-sanctioned group, the school would provide a classroom for use before or after school, as allowed by district policy.
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thats what i dont get, what the hell is going on with this country?
we cant say under god in schools and cant even read a bible in our spair time after class, but we can have these islamic murderers on tv saying alah be praised after they cut off a christians head,
and we got these government controlled church programs trying to bend the meaning of christianity and we can even show Brokeback Obama in prayer with the american islamic society.
but when a student in his or her spair time trys to pray to god or jesus as part of their belifs they are condemed and punished for exercising their belifs, isnt that an infringment on freedom of religion?
like why can the islamic comunity do prayers in the congress and exercise their religion and no1 says a dam thing about it, but if a christian prays in a classroom, or in any public place it is automaticly a insuilt to everything? isnt this a form of discrimination?
if these people dont want to pray they dont have to pray, and they dont have to watch others pray, just get the hell out if they dont like it dont try to force these atheist ideals upon every1 because you dont belive in god, if you dont belive then leave us that do the hell alone you pig eating whors of babylon.
im sick of the government and these imagrants telling americans what they can and cant belive, i dont give a **** if i offend you,and if you are ofended by what i belive then ill offend you as much as possable, you came over here jack and you chose your belifs and we have chosen ours and if ya cant take it ill gladly drive your ass to the nerest airport or harbor and let you take a 1 way trip to your country of choice and lets load all these **** eating politicians that are trying to not offend some1 who hate out guts , lets load them up too.