Weighing the Fundamental and Competing Constitutional Principles
The following statement can be attributed to Kevin Keenan, Executive Director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties.
A controversy has been mounting at Carver Elementary in San Diego about the role of religion and prayer in public schools � and particularly Islamic prayers. (situation) The situation at Carver raises serious concerns�and not just about what the school is doing. Some people are using the Carver controversy as an excuse to promote their own religious agenda in public schools while others are fanning the flames of prejudice by making wildly inaccurate claims about what is actually going on.
Parents�not governments and not public schools�should decide what religious training children receive. Individuals�not the government�should choose how they exercise the callings of their conscience on matters of belief. That is what our Constitution requires, and it is what is right and best for both religion and government in this country.
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