MASON - Mason school board member Jennifer Miller put on her best Christian behavior Wednesday night.  Miller took issue with the superintendent's decision to provide some Muslim students with a room away from the cafeteria, since they were fasting.  Board meeting observer Shirley Jenkins described her behavior.  

"Actually, I couldn't tell if she was mad that they were given a room, or if she was mad that they might pray in that room.  Of course, they didn't even use the room - they went to the library during lunch instead.  But by then Miller began calling everyone in the room a liar, questioned the superintendent's morals and ethics, and questioned the very presence of a board member who may or may not have been appointed rather than elected.  At that point, everyone pretty much got tired of her voice and got up and left."

Miller, who has advocated prayer in public schools and Bible-based instruction, clarified her comments after the meeting

"Let me be perfectly clear.  It's not that I think Muslim students shouldn't have a  prayer room. It's that I think Muslim students shouldn't have a prayer room, a fasting room, or any other rooms.  In fact, they shouldn't be in public schools.  We should really create special, all-Muslim schools that are separate, but equal."

Miller then put her Crucifix-shaped dagger back in her purse and walked off.