Yes, there has been extreme discrimination and injustices by the majority on various minority groups in America. Some of that discrimination continues today in education, employment and social settings. There is more than enough time each day for parents and children to practice their religious beliefs outside of the classroom. There is no reason to bring prayer into the classroom. A classroom of 30 students represents many different religious beliefs and no matter how well structured, a moment of prayer in that class is going to exclude, pressure or create misunderstandings between students.
School is for teaching a secular curriculum including reading, writing and arithmetic.
Leave faith to the home, church, synagogue, temple and mosque. Gay Rights I support a gay civil rights agenda that seeks to equalize the rights and privileges of gay and heterosexual Americans. What I do not support, and never could support, is any preferential policy that gave an advantage to one group of Americans over another, no matter what the past history of discrimination.