Re:So close, but no cigar (Score 1)

Since 'respecting' in this instance means 'in regards to,' how come it becomes more and more illegal every year to say a prayer over your lunch at school, or have a Bible Study group, or (this is the latest) exclude gays from the Boy Scouts (which they were doing on on RELIGIOUS moral grounds)?

American public schools are controlled by the government. There's a little thing called separation of church and state. If praying or studying the bible is forced upon the students, it is a violation of that. A student can do those things of his/her own free will, though. I don't know about the gay part, but I'm almost positive that it has to do with some civil rights, and that by excluding them would be discrimination.