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We say prayers at formal meetings. We had a strong Southern Baptist majority and a few catholic kids. If you do not believe in God, I would not judge a person or try to convince them otherwise. We had a few girls that would. I do not think there would be much of a problem objecting to not participating in prayer, but there would be resistence if someone tried to take away the tradition.
Being Catholic, I disagree with saying the endings of the lords prayer at formal meetings. The ending for the Catholic prayer and the one commonly used by protestants is very different. If you stop in the middle of the prayer, people notice and I feel stupid. However, if I have to feel stupid around anyone, my sisters are the best ones to do it around.
Also, our advisor who I love dearly is Jewish- I could not imagine how she felt. I am sure she has thicker skin than I do, growing up Jewish in the bible belt.
I always thought it would be awesome to add a prayer in Hebrew to the program or any other type of religion.
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