Posted on 04/23/2018 8:31:37 AM PDT by Morgana
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minneapolis-area church pastor who also drives a school bus says his rights to free speech and to practice his religion were violated when he was taken off his route for leading students in prayer.
It is not the first time George Nathaniel, 54, has faced consequences for leading prayers. Nathaniel was fired from driving children to school in the town of Burnsville, Minnesota, four years ago for the same reason.
Quality Care Transportation removed Nathaniel from his route last week, the Star Tribune reported . He began working for the company in January 2017 and drove children to Nasha Shkola, a charter school in Brooklyn Park focused on Russian language and culture.
He started incorporating prayer into the bus ride this winter.
"The students would volunteer to lead the prayer," Nathaniel said.
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Plus considering all the school bus crashes we've had lately, maybe the kids better pray!
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Prayer on the buses and in the schools would be a wonderful thing, but we all know most schools of today do not want that. You have to cooperate with what your employer wants.
This man has been counseled before on other jobs about this same thing. If it means that much to you, work on changing the law or encourage parents to request it. Meanwhile, school district policy is what it is.
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Probably if he was an imam, we never would have heard about it.
> Prayer on the buses and in the schools would be a wonderful thing, but we all know most schools of today do not want that. <
I have fond memories of my elementary teacher daily leading the class in a brief prayer before lunch. And that was in a public school, back in the 1960’s.
But it’s probably best that there be no prayers in public schools, or on buses. Because suppose the teacher - or the bus driver - wants to say a radical Muslim prayer, or a animist prayer? Best to stay away from all that.
Aha! So, he's a serial prayer - you'd think the current school district would have done a better job of vetting him.
He pulls this sort of thing one more time and he'll be praying in Alcatraz....
If an imam had stopped he bus and made all the kids face mecca and do the bow down allahu akhbar thing, he would be given hundreds of job offers and interviewed on prime time TV.
But a Christian prays, and he’s punished.
They laughed when I said they want to eliminate Christians.
I wonder if the school has a foot basin in the boys bathroom and if there is a room set aside for muslim prayers?
That’s ‘different’!
What about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title VII of which [prohibits religiuos discrimination in employment?
Was his driving really this bad?
Was his driving really this bad?
What I was thinking ,so lets Pray before I start driving
Was just thinking about that. The recent one with the young guy splitting the bus into a tree, comes to mind. (Found him guilty of many charges in March)
One of my kids’ bus drivers let a 13-year old boy goad her into showing them her nipple rings.
She was “reassigned”.
Liberals hate Christians. We must fight back and stick together.
JoMa
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