I recently attended a graduation ceremony for DeVry Institute of Technology DuPage campus. Before beginning, a Lutheran minister was invited to give an invocation. Like the students at the Santa Fe, Texas, High School (“A pass and a prayer,” Editorial, June 26), those of us attending the graduation ceremonies were a “captive audience.” The only way to “avoid the religious message” was to miss the graduation.
Moreover, this prayer excluded all but those who profess a belief in Jesus Christ and His teachings.
Clearly the people in charge of organizing the graduation ignored the fact that the June 2000 DeVry graduating class represented many faiths, not just the Christian faith.
I agree with the editorial writer that prayer should not be “forced on the unwilling.”
