Posted on 10/26/2008 2:22:49 PM PDT by jafojeffsurf
Prayer is being forced off campus at the College of Alameda in California. Student Kandy Kyriacou went into an instructor's office to give her a Christmas present last year.
The professor told Kyriacou she was not feeling well, and Kyriacou offered to pray for her instructor. The teacher welcomed her student's prayer. Another professor named Derek Piazza, who shared the office, entered and told the student to stop praying. Kyriacou quickly left the office and joined her friend, while Piazza followed them outside to continue his rebuke.
Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) further explains the story. "In fact, students were actually praying for an instructor who was ill, and this instructor welcomed and wanted them to pray for her," he says. "They were quickly ostracized and told not to pray and that such praying was not allowed on campus."
Then three days before Christmas, Kyriacou and her friend received letters in the mail. "These college students got a written notice of intent to suspend them from campus because of their praying," Dacus adds. "Since when does praying for a sick teacher to get well -- with her consent -- earn a suspension?"
PJI attorneys are already in action and have filed a lawsuit against the school. "Make no mistake, we at the Pacific Justice Institute will take this case as far and as high as we need to make sure that students across the country are not reprimanded or forced to leave campus simply because they're praying," Dacus contends.
The Marxists would kill Christians if they could. They just can’t get away with it....( yet).
That’s because some of us Christians realize we only have one “other cheek”, and WILL fight back. The rest of us need to grow a pair.
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These guys are good. They do Pro Bono work for Christian groups, etc. When we built a new children's building at our Church, the city council started putting restrictions on our hours of operation, use of the building, etc. as a condition of giving us a permit to begin construction. Brad introduced himself at a packed city council meeting and the bureaucrats backed off.
Brad also helped us hammer one of the local high screwells that was mandating all students (freshman) take a rather graphic sex ed class. Now students can opt out of the class and not be penalized for it.
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