Here’s something that gets deliberately confused FAR too often:

👉 Keeping public schools secular does NOT mean keeping religious students silent.

Students do not surrender their beliefs when they walk through the school doors.
They can pray.
They can talk about their faith.
They can read religious texts.
They can participate in religious clubs under the same rules as other student groups.

SECULARISM IS NOT A RESTRICTION ON STUDENTS.

👉It is a restriction on adults using public schools, the school day, or access to children to advance religion.

Sometimes that pressure comes from the school, or a teacher, a local pastor, a community member, an outside religious organization, a “mentor” program using support as a doorway to religious influence…
Sometimes it even comes from another child who has been influenced by adults to proselytize to their peers. Different messenger. Same problem.

👉Adults using access to children to push religion.

There is a massive difference between:

💜 A student choosing to pray.

and

🚩 Adults creating, encouraging, or exploiting opportunities to preach, recruit, evangelize, pressure, incentivize, or steer children toward religion through the public school environment.

🚫Religious freedom does not mean giving adults a pipeline to children during the school day.

🚫It does not mean turning public schools into recruiting grounds.

🚫And it does not mean every objection to religious influence is “anti-Christian” or “anti-faith.”

🇺🇸Students have religious freedom.
Public schools have a duty to remain neutral.

That protects religious students.
It protects nonreligious students.
It protects families.

And it protects every parent’s right to decide what religious beliefs their own child is taught.

👆THAT is parental choice.

Let students have religion.
Keep adults from using public schools to push it.

---

View original post on Facebook