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Rules of prayer as it stands now.

"at any time before, during or after the school-day," as long as your prayers do not interfere with other students.
In meetings of organized prayer or worship groups, either informally or as a formal school organization -- IF -- other student clubs are also allowed at the school.

Before eating a meal at school -- as long as the prayer does not disturb other students.

In some states, student-led prayers or invocations are still delivered at graduations due to lower court rulings. However, the Supreme Court's ruling of June 19, 2000 may bring this practice to an end.

Some states provide for a daily "moment of silence" to be observed as long as students are not encouraged to "pray" during the silent period.

Notice. If it does not interfere with or disturb other students. If you are praying before a meal in the cafeteria and another student sees you and gets offended...isn't that a form of disturbance? So basically what that says is that one student holds higher power to another student meaning if the disturbed student so wishes, they can make the person stop praying and complain plus hold higher preference for winning their case.

Maybe the students should take their meal to the bathroom so they can pray there. Solution? Sorry but I see how if you pray you are game for bullying.

Then of course there are private schools but that's suggesting that only the rich should be able to pray.

Then you have the, well you have church to go to, there is always a place to pray but think of how many hours students attend school. Also what do muslims do?

Would they go to the lengths of assassinating Ron Paul? Or would the minimal taxes work to their advantage? I am personally sceptical of Libertarianism as an ideology of the greedy rich who don't want socialised education, healthcare, or any welfare.

How can you privatize welfare? Charities? Don't make me laugh. Some things are better state-funded, so as to ensure that the system remains fair. However, I would advocate mixing the funding up a little for healthcare, so that there is a proportionally small charge for various medicines and treatments. That would lower the overall burden by a percentage. Minimal initial university fees, say, about £500 to enrol in a particular course, and then £2000-5000 per course as a gradual course payment, perhaps.

And alot of non-essential government campaigns can be translated into funding and cooperating with various independent charities instead. The British government has far too many useless farce schemes, such as "political correctness comittees", and many other commissions which are essentially without purpose.

My most important values are ensuring justice, accountability, true democracy, personal freedom to a sane degree, equal opportunity of medical treatment, education to everyone's best ability regardless of economic status, and also making sure that citizens are well-informed and that big business does not have an undue and unfair influence over politics. No group should be able to destroy the freedom to choose, or obscur truth which is not a matter of national security. All products should be thoroughly tested, and no company should be allowed to get away with flaunting the law. Despite the regulations, companies must still be able to thrive as long as they do not decieve people on a huge scale and cause psychological harm... e.g weight loss product companies which thrive on lies, insecurity, extreme peer pressure, and anything else which thrives on such things, or provides a highly misleading view.

I'm kind of sick of hearing about him.

That being said he is so far the only candidate that I can't think of a very good reason for why he/she shouldnt be president.

My boyfriend love R.P. so once I helped him and some other locals put out Ron Paul flyers/chalk messages. I was amazed by how many people stopped to tell us they agreed with us, appreciated what we were doing, offered suggestions for the best tactics etc.

Some members in our group had taped signs to the doors of this one campus building (not either of our campuses) when the night janitor told us we shouldn't do that because security would remove our signs, and told us where we could put them. So we went back and were tearing these down when I noticed the night security guard staring at us. He told us he'd leave them up.