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Iowa State May Not Have a Prayer!

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In a clash caused by public funding of a religious post several Iowa State professors are petitioning against the idea of having a team chaplain for football.

If they lose a game can we then say they never had a prayer?

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Iowa State U. professors petitioning against team chaplain proposal
By James Heggen, Iowa State Daily
May 24, 2007 (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- Last week, four Iowa State University professors started a petition opposing the idea to have a team chaplain for the ISU football team.
Hector Avalos, associate professor of religious studies; Warren Blumenfeld, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction; William David, university professor of music; and Ellen Fairchild, lecturer of curriculum and instruction were the four professors to start the petition, which came in response to reports that football coach Gene Chizik wants to hire a chaplain for the ISU football team.
David said there were 101 signatures on the petition.

David said he has not received any "hostile responses" since he distributed the petition.
"There was a lot of outrage [to having an 'official' chaplain]," he said.
David also said even if the position were to be privately funded, it still didn't matter to the people who signed the petition.
"The funding isn't the point," he said. "We're hoping they reconsider the idea."
The next step is up to the administration, David said.
Charles Haynes, senior scholar and director of education programs at the First Amendment Center, said courts have not been as strict about the establishment clause of the First Amendment for universities as they have been for grade schools.
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Haynes said using public money to fund a chaplain position at a public university should be unconstitutional.




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Make up your mind, dude!

David also said even if the position were to be privately funded, it still didn't matter to the people who signed the petition.
"The funding isn't the point," he said.
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Haynes said using public money to fund a chaplain position at a public university should be unconstitutional.
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Edit - The guy changed his name halfway through the article. I guess if you change your name, you can change your opinion.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;850608; said:
Public money funds hundreds of chaplain positions in the armed forces (public-funded entity), so that argument is faulty...
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Not necessarily. Maybe he thinks that funding ANY chaplain positions (armed forces, or elsewhere) should be unconstitutional.

I still think that if people keep going around looking for reasons to be pissed off, they're only going to get pissed off. The guy should go back to smoking pot and quit whining about stuff.
 
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