I think the person who wrote the poem is flat wrong. They were basically saying that any display of religion or spirituality is banned from schools, which isn't true at all. When I was in high school, people used to pray a lot. There were a couple Christian youth groups, there was a Jewish group, which I was actually in, and there was a group of Muslims that prayed in the library throughout the day. I was friend with people in all the religious groups, and none of them felt as if they were being restricted. And I'm sure it's a similar situation in many, many other schools around the country.
The only thing that is banned, in terms of religion, is for the school to teach a religion, or to lead prayer, or to support atheism. Schools, and the government as a whole should be completely neutral when it comes to religion and sprituality, or lack thereof.
Obviously the person who wrote the poem doesn't know their rights and feels discriminated against. And yet, it is clear that the author thinks that colored hair, piercings, profanity, pre-marital sex and witches should be banned, or at least looked down upon.
I don't want to offend anyone here who agrees with this poem, but the author is just as prejudiced as they feel the schools are. Crazy hair and tattoos don't affect anyone but the person wearing them, while the school having forced prayer or whatnot affects everyone, and is illegal.
Crazy hair and profanity and piercings are protected under the Bill of Rights, as is the right to pray. However for the government to have prayer in schools, would be the same thing as making everyone color their hair blue and get a nose ring.
As I said, if you want the government to establish religion, or to enforce prayer, get an amendment to the Constitution passed. And if you want crazy hair and pre-marital sex banned, then get another amendment passed.
Protecting our rights is important, but overprotecting them is dangerous.
