SilverBear said in post #851:
its called coercion and you have the right to not have anyone else's religious views or practices pushed on you.
It's not being pushed on you. It's simply being expressed.
That is, if someone is willing to listen to a valedictorian's speech, which could include some ideas that the listener disagrees with, then why not simply listen to a short prayer by the valedictorian preceding her speech?
Where is the harm?
Only bigots against religion would be offended.
Imagine that a school had its first Muslim valedictorian, and she wanted to say a short prayer of thanks to Allah before her speech.
Everyone who holds to "political correctness" would be overjoyed at this. For it would show "diversity" and "acceptance". "Tolerance" and "love".
But these are only for Islam.
For Biblical Christianity is vile and coercive under "political correctness". There can be no Biblical Christian prayers.
SilverBear said in post #851:
You stopped talking about prayer a long time ago and moved on to public displays for the sake of making a display.
That depends on the motive.
For Jesus and His apostles sometimes prayed out in public (e.g. John 11:41, Acts 21:5).
Also, any public prayer by someone does not mean that there cannot be many more private prayers by that person.
Matthew 6:5 would refer to those who only pray in public, and only with the motive of being seen by others. Compare the "all" in Matthew 23:5.
SilverBear said in post #851:
. . . you told the lie back in post #847 when you made false statements about research.
No, it's clear that any research that began to undermine "political correctness" would be abandoned, as "flawed".
Do you really think that "political correctness" is based on science, instead of sinfulness?
SilverBear said in post #851:
no it says your beliefs are your own and it is the lies told about sexual orientation that are evil,
No, the beliefs against homosexuality and abortions are from the Bible (Romans 1:26-27; Luke 1:15, Luke 1:41).
And the Bible is not evil (2 Timothy 3:15 to 4:4).