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In response to Peter Buffa’s column (“To the U.S. Supreme Court: We’ll

pray for you,” June 23), I say, “keep your prayers to yourself.”

Religion is a personal matter between you and your god. I believe the

fact that highly organized sects like Catholics and Mormons filed the

Texas lawsuit is evidence enough that the pregame prayers were less

“innocuous” than Buffa suspects.

Why do adherents to organized religions feel the need to proselytize

in public? This “reasonable” person believes that constitutional order is

threatened by prayer at public school functions and that there is no gray

area for the separation of church and state. “Innocuous” issues such as

this are what begin to chip away at constitutional freedoms.

If Buffa and his kind impose their “innocuous” beliefs on us now and

chip away at our freedoms, they may find themselves in some future

less-than-tolerant theocracy in which they are the “nonadherents!”

MICHAEL BACSIK

Newport Beach