SOLUTION:
Posted on 05/18/2005 4:53:35 PM PDT by Ellesu
Teachers and administrators in Tangipahoa Parish continue to violate a court-imposed school prayer ban, according to the ACLU, which Wednesday asked a federal judge to send them to jail. For the fourth time in less than two months, the ACLU has formally notified the judge that school officials are flouting the prayer ban, imposed to settle a lawsuit the civil liberties group filed for a parent in 2003.
This time, the group says, an elementary school teacher in Tangipahoa Parish repeatedly held prayers in her fourth grade class, encouraged students to bring their Bibles to school, held Bible study classes in the cafeteria of D.C. Reeves Elementary School and admonished students who didn't show up for the class.
In addition, the ACLU cites a prayer it says was recently given at Amite High School, over a loudspeaker, at an awards banquet. The prayer ended with the words "In Jesus' name we pray," violating the ban; the principal of the school sat silently by.
Wednesday's filing is the latest skirmish in a decade-long battle between the ACLU here and school authorities in the rural parish north of Lake Pontchartrain over the place of religion in the classroom. The group contends parish school officials systematically flout the Constitution's Establishment Clause forbidding the mixing of government and religion.
Court decisions have repeatedly favored the civil liberties group, including the two latest ones -- a 2004 prayer ban in the schools and a February decision by U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan banning prayer before school board meetings. The school board Tuesday night pressed on with its appeal of that decision, announcing the addition of a national Christian-oriented legal group to its team, the Alliance Defense Fund.
At the same time it warned school employees against flouting the court prayer ban. That warning preceded by hours, however, the ACLU's latest contention that some in Tangipahoa continue to ignore the court's orders.
"The consent judgment is repeatedly violated by these individuals because they do not believe anything will happen to them," the ACLU said in its Wednesday court filing. "Their refusal to comply with the consent decree should and must result in their removal from society."
Under the agreement, no "invocations by students to the student body over the school's public address system, during assemblies or at any school sponsored event" are allowed.
A lawyer for the school board said the latest allegations would be "thoroughly investigated" and "disciplinary actions" would be taken if they hold up.
Jailwould be too kind for the freakin Communists and America HATERS of the Anti-Christian Liars Union.I say
send 'em all to Afghanistan with Crusader suits(san chain mail, and anti-Islamic tatoos -so even if they ditch the
threads their own skin would teach them about the bloody
religion of Peace.
I'd like to see the ACLU disbanded instead of playing peeping tom in everyone's affairs.
"Remove from society" is, of course, the ACLU's euphemism for "public execution".
You'll never be able to solve the ACLU infestation with simple black powder and low-velocity projectiles.
The school is smart. Think about it. First they are saying .. UP YOURS.. ACLU you may control the courts but you can’t enforce these rulings. Second, If someone does get arrested, it should make the NEWS, with a headline like “Man arrested for Praying in School.” This should promote a national out cry, and embarrass the ACLU, maybe even get the laws change.
One person...can impose their desire on an entire school/town/country?????
"The group contends parish school officials systematically flout the Constitution's Establishment Clause forbidding the mixing of government and religion."
I don't find that clause in my Constitution.
The almighty ACLU and their lackey judges are what happened to this country and there is nothing we can do about it. We lose.
WRONG! We have to start somewhere and one of those somewheres is... www.stoptheaclu.blogspot.com where a few FReepers go when they get tired of just talking about it!
It's time to end public schools.
ACLU PING
Got YOUR logo Jay?
I don't like the generic term ACLU. What is the name of the person who filed these charges? Who is the ACLU lawyer defending the charges? Maybe when the community learns of the names of these goofballs, they will be ostracized and maybe even castrated!!!!!
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This group just started on December 3, 2004 and are looking for new members to their yahoo group
My Personal Anti-ACLU Blog (Check it out and leave a comment!)
But maybe the school personnel are onto a really good idea. What better way to deal with these vermin than to just ignore them?
From a different thread but still applies.
Roseland cracks down on zoning laws(private property right?What private property rights?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404257/posts
From the Carl Dregas story and can't be said enough!
>>> What I do know is that this is why the tyrants are moving so quickly to take away our guns. Because they know in their hearts that if they continue the way they've been going, boxing Americans into smaller and smaller corners, leaving us no freedom to decide how to raise and school and discipline our kids, no freedom to purchase (or do without) the medical care we want on the open market, no freedom to withdraw $2,500 from our own bank accounts (let alone move it out of the country) without federal permission, no freedom even to arrange the dirt and trees on our own property to please ourselves ... if they keep going down this road, there are going to be a lot more Carl Dregas, <<<
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1297drega.htm
Yes, defiance.....organized defiance.... is the way to go about it. Let Americans see pictures being broadcast over Fox of innocent Americans be hauled off to jail because of prayer even as sadomasochistic pedophiles walk freely amongst us raping and killing children.
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