Public Prayer

My thanks to Charles Kimball for speaking the truth (“ ‘No Pray, No Play’ Trivializes Piety,” Commentary, Sept. 7). I have always wondered why the majority of Christians do not follow Christ’s directive to pray in private. The answer is becoming painfully more apparent with each passing day.

The issue is not about religious freedom (for all) being upheld in the courts. It’s about Christians being guaranteed the right to foist their religious beliefs on everyone else in America, with government sanction. I, for one, am tired of it.

Were the issue about securing religious freedom for a Santerian, Wiccan, Buddhist, Sikh, Bahai, Rastafarian or atheist, a hush would surely fall over the very vocal Christian majority.

ELLEN BROWN

San Diego

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Re plans of religious groups to “spontaneously” recite the Lord’s Prayer at high school football games: If people want to recite prayers publicly that’s fine, at the appropriate place and time. How would they feel if I walked into a church service with a portable radio and started listening to a football game?

DAVE JAMES

Crestline