Posted on 05/04/2025 3:19:42 PM PDT by CFW
A leftwing school board member in North Carolina exploded in rage when a fellow member made a motion to start meetings with an invocation.
“How much prayer do you need,” said Pam Escobar, a member of the Cabarrus County School Board. “How much God do you need?”
Melanie Freeman, a newcomer to the school board, told me that it’s important to start meetings by seeking God’s wisdom. She ran for office by declaring her faith in God and she was determined to reinstate the pre-meeting prayer.
“I knew there would be resistance, because any time you put back something that somebody has taken out, the struggle is much harder,” she said.
Escobar blasted the Republicans on the school board for daring to bring up the Almighty.
“They didn’t come here to pray with you,” she said, referring to school employees. “If you want to pray with them, take them to church. You want to be evangelical and do that? Go for it. But not on my time, not on their time, and not on this community’s time. We’re not in this business. This is not the time or the place. I don’t know why you need prayer to take this job seriously.
Escobar, a former television news anchor, seethed with rage and yelled, “no” when the final vote was held. The motion passed overwhelmingly.
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I need all the God I can get.
Less than her.
Good news.
Not to offend Ms. Pam Escobar, but Good Lord, woman. What kind of intolerant yay-hoo are you, anyway?
I wonder how she feels about Muslims praying five times a day - and often being given accommodations to do so in our educational facilities...
“How much DEI do you need?”
‘ I wonder how she feels about Muslims praying five times a day - and often being given accommodations to do so in our educational facilities...’
Right.
Allow all religions to pray before every public policy meeting.
That will get things done.
Hmm. Pam Escobar... I wonder if she is any relation to Pablo.
My answer to Pam would be "Not quite as much as you need."
Anymore, I would calmly respond: "How much air do you need?". Tired of tolerating people like that.
Get Pam a donkey, and let her celebrate out back with it.
(Although I've never served, I am given to understand that in the fox holes and in the trenches, there is also a bit of praying when the war heats up.)
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
King James Version
16 Rejoice evermore.
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
If Islamists move in she’ll have her forehead on the ground in her ass in the air toot sweet! And she won’t on a school board or running her yap in public.
Is joining in prayer with unbelievers effective? Is it biblical?
Do not be bound together with unbelievers,” says Paul in 2 Corinthians 6:14,
Apparently, there are many here that understand that you can’t have too much prayer. Prayer is powerful.
Hubs and I pray daily. We pray for our children and our grandchildren. We pray for our country and that God place a hedge of protection around our President, his family, and his cabinet. We also give thanks to God for all his grace and all he has done for us, our children, and our country.
It’s amazing what prayer can do for you in your daily life. Ms. Escobar should try it sometimes.
Amen.
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