Dear President and Mrs. Obama,
My name is Tonya Bernard, and I am an American citizen concerned about the state of the educational system in our country. It is a concern that is not what I would say was traditional, or even popular by today’s standards, but I feel it is one that bears tremendous weight.
I address you and your wife because I am impressed by both of your spirits and devotion to change this world we live in. I want to do that too, yet I am just one person; a wife, and a mother, with one voice.
This country was built on “One nation under God,” but it was this country who allowed one woman to take away the spiritual foundation on which our fore fathers built this great nation on, Madelyn O’Hare. At no time were some of the nation’s greatest leaders hesitant to pray for guidance and give reverence to the God who gave it to them during the era where this country was being built.
Just this morning I mentioned to my husband how it took that one woman to come into our schools and take prayer away; why could it not be one woman, me, to come in and do just the opposite? Our schools are where the nation’s next leaders are being trained to do battle in the place we call the real world. We rely on these places to shape the minds of our most impressionable, but yet take away the one thing that should be impressed upon them, the power of prayer.
My husband reminded me, in our talk, that this was a free country and no one can force people to participate in something they don’t believe in. I believe that’s true, but I also believe that my duty as a Christian is to walk in the light, no matter where I am, and to guide the lost into salvation by the life that I lead. One of the gifts that God gives us is a direct line to Him, and while I recognize that He also gives us the freedom of free will, this is the very reason that I believe that those who pray to Him should, and those who don’t shouldn’t be made to participate. This country Democracy is very much a Hypocrisy if they take away the rights of some (believers) to give to others(unbelievers).
Our children are in school for the most part of the day, so are the teachers. Should these people who share the same faith be deprived of their right to come together and pray on a regular basis? I don’t think so.
What I’m asking you is, where do I start? How can I get pray back into the schools that our children attend? Please help me.
Sincerely,
Tonya D. Bernard
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