I, like all of you, received this e-mail, and felt called to respond.

>   Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and
>   insightful response. She said "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just
>   as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to
>   get out of our government and to get out of our lives.

What an excellent idea. I found a bunch of sites to help us with our prayers... perhaps our school administrators would find them useful.

http://smallurl.com?i=10200
http://smallurl.com?i=10201
http://smallurl.com?i=10202
http://smallurl.com?i=10203
http://smallurl.com?i=10204

No, this isn't just some athiest liberal's screed - this is the measured response of a practicing Christian. I believe that Clarence Darrow said it well when he stated: "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom." I would not want my children to say ANY of the above prayers in school. Personally, I'd like for them to say the Hail Mary, which many a Protestant would consider as heretical as (if not worse than) all the ones above. So I respect that, and instruct my children to pray in public the way that Christ taught us:

MAT 6:5-6 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

If we all followed this command of Christ, there would be no need of the late Ms. O'Hare and her lawsuit, and our faith would not be mocked by those we would force it upon.

I hope this finds you all well, and that you are having a blessed Easter season.