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Baccalaureat
Thoughts
To the Editor
I was delighted a few weeks ago to receive a letter from Sherri Thomas on behalf of the RCHS Senior Class and Bible Club inviting me to attend the Baccalaureat Service. It was a lovely service and I was moved by the heart-felt profession of faith given by my friend Jon Heddleston.
Since the event, however, I have been pondering the delicate and complex issues which are raised by such a service, for it brings into tension two fundamental principles of American life: the freedom to worship as we choose, and a separation of church and state.
Because attendance at the service was purely voluntary, the school believes it was within the law. And Yet I wonder if, in spirit, it did not nevertheless break this last principle which holds that the State must neither establish, nor seem to establish a state religion.
Another way to ask this question is this: What is the responsibility of a Christian pastor towards religious / minorities—even tiny minorities— when he is preaching in public space.
It is true that no senior had to come. But what senior would want to miss this shared moment of worship with his or her fellow students; or the lovely ritual of passing candle light from senior to junior ad the torch is passed from one class to the next. i
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