A south-central Kansas public school choir teacher made middle school students sing Christian worship songs centering around loving Jesus.
A south-central Kansas public school choir teacher made middle school students sing Christian worship songs centering around loving Jesus.
I get using religious music in choir; if you’re going to teach early music, the vast (surviving) majority is sacred.
Likewise I understand using the Bible as a reference in school as part of both a history of literature and a comparative religions course.
I don’t know any non-religious people trying to stop kids from being able to pray in school.
What we are against is allowing teachers to take our kids as a captive audience and then try to indoctrinate them into their fundamentalist flavor of conservative reactionary bullshit.
I think with the prayer its wierd if they are being lead in it, but time for each individual to use for personal prayer or reflection is fine. Religious choral music often has less religious classical originals. joyful joyful we adore thee is bethovens 9th and while it mentions god it also does goddess and eleysium and is more pagan in feel. bible is fine as a refernce provided other refrences are used for other equally big religions like the koran, buddhist and hindu texts, etc. Its like using the bible directly and just using snippets from other sources would seem bs.