So what's the deal?

[Tommy Perkins]

In 2002 Prez Bush proclaimed “compassionate coercion”:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/02/20020212-2.html

In 1991 Archie Brodsky of Harvard Medical School wrote:

“And it is one of the most blatant and pervasive violations of 
constitutional rights in the United States today. After all, even murderers 
on death row are not forced to pray.”

http://www.peele.net/lib/aaabuse.html

So what’s the deal?  Why are the people on this list so reluctant to get 
into this issue?