Posted on 03/19/2017 9:09:23 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A prayer room at a Texas high school is raising legal concerns and the state’s attorney general’s office in a letter on Friday to school district’s superintendent indicated the school’s policy should be neutral toward religion.
Liberty High School’s prayer room, which is reportedly dedicated to students who practice Islam, allows the students to pray at the school on Fridays instead of leaving to say their required prayers. The letter cites the school’s own news site, which focused on the prayer room.
In a letter Friday to the the Frisco Independent School District, the Texas attorney general’s office outlined the legal concerns over the prayer room, indicating it may violate the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty.
“Liberty High School’s policy should be neutral toward religion,” the letter from Deputy Attorney General Andrew Leonie to Superintendent Jeremy Lyons said. “However, it appears that students are being treated different based on their religious beliefs. Such a practice, of course, is irreconcilable with our nation’s enduring commitment to religious liberty.”
Sponsored Links by The letter congratulates the school’s effort to create an environment where students can practice their religion, and the high school’s various student-led religious groups. “Your willingness to guarantee the freedom of student-led religious groups is laudable,” the letter states, but also points out the words of the U.S. Supreme Court: ‘One religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another.’”
“Reports from Liberty’s news site indicate that the prayer room is not available to students of all faiths. Instead, it appears that the prayer room is ‘dedicated to the religious needs of some students,’ namely those who practice Islam,” the letter reads.
The school’s news site, in its coverage of the prayer room, interviewed the principal of Liberty High School.
“This is my seventh year at Liberty, my first year it kind of started when a core group of students were leaving campus every Friday for Friday prayer,” said Principal Scott Warstler.
“Their parents would come pick them up, so they may miss an hour and a half to two hours to two and a half hours of school every Friday, so I met with those students and a couple of their parents and suggested if they would be okay if the students were able to lead the prayer at school as a group, and we gave them a space to do that so they didn’t have to be in a car traveling thirty minutes each way on a Friday missing an hour, hour and a half, of class,” said Warstler.
Leonie asks that school officials to ensure the prayer room is accessible to all students of all religious denominations.
Libs are suicidally hypocritical.
They’re always going on about the ‘separation of church and state’, where it comes to Christianity, but they bend over backwards to accommodate an alien belief system that commands its adherents to “kill the infidel” wherever they find them.
These school administrators need to be run out of town.
NO prayer room in PUBLIC schools
What is it going to take to stop this hypocrisy
Very good video. But I have a question. Who the hell was that strange, expressionless guy on the stage right sitting in the chair??
Or, have them establish a Christian prayer room, with set aside time a few times a day. It would probably become popular fast. Educators can be such fools.
lol...I just noticed that, too, watching it again. I zoomed in on him for a sec. Maybe security? Not sure. It was pretty tight security there that night with police and others. I wonder why? ;)
The continued stench of Rick Perry stinking up Frisco.
Doubtless he will run for the presidency again to try to spread Islam (this time on a national scale) in three years.
Government schrools are an unmitigated evil. They are financed at gunpoint, teach collectivism, and usurp parental rights.
Crystal clear and in great detail the afternoon before that show.
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller Interviewed by Caplis and Silverman (Denver radio)
630 KHOW (Denver) ^ | March 22, 2012 | Caplis and Silverman Show
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2862706/posts
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Texas has more mosques than most states because their previous Governors, Perry and Bush were so welcoming.
Reap what you sow.
Catholics in Frisco should demand a chapel for adoration at Liberty High. That’ll changes things real quickly.
>Liberty High School’s prayer room<
The constant catering to muslims continues unabated in Texas.
Are there any chapels or prayer rooms for Christians in that school?
We’re losing the fight against Islam because we simply want to lose.
Down on the government school Animal Farm some animals are more equal than others.....OINK! OINK!
But....The government temples of indoctrination caved to Muslim pressure but for decades Christians have been assigned to the worse weather conditions around the flag pole.
The entire camel is in.
By the way....Where is the outrage from the all the so-called “good” government teachers that people seem to know ( or are married to). Huh?.... ( crickets).....I guess there aren't any.
Unconstitutional!!!
Take it to the 9th District and lets see how those judges rule.
The takeover of Texas.
We’d be living ‘The Man in the High Castle’ right now if the current crop of Americans had fighting WW 2 75 years ago.
‘had BEEN fighting’...geez.
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