Coach resigns after high school bans pregame prayer

AP ^ | 10/11/05

[gortklattu]

Prayers for the team members who care....

To the others......

[SaveTheChief]

But East Brunswick school officials think differently. According to school officials, the prayers violated the separation between church and state in public schools.

There is no such thing as separation between church and state, and certainly the Constitution says nothing about it in public schools.

I don't know why "Congress shall make no law" somehow got translated into meaning willing people cannot practice Christianity in open spaces while others might be within earshot.

[Humidston]

It's all backwards... He would probably have been praised if he showed up dressed in leotards. Or if he led a Muslim prayer. Anything but leading a Christian prayer!

[gusopol3]

since some children were made to feel bad by the superintendant's decision, the right thing for her to do is to step down also.

[willyd]

So true...kudos to this man for practicing civil disobedience in support of his beliefs...we all need to follow his lead...this separation of church and state thing is getting rediculous...we need to be focusing on separation of education and state.

[SaveTheChief]

.we need to be focusing on separation of education and state.

Absolutely!

[Ann Archy]

We need MORE Coach Borden's!!

I am so damn sick of atheist's and anti-Christian's crap I could scream.

I'll bet the students that complained weren't even on the team! And even if you were on the team yo were NOT obligated to pray.

[AZ_Cowboy]

Good for the coach for stepping down. I wouldn't like being censored, either.

[RedCell]

But school officials, who emphasized that they did not force Borden to resign, said some students felt uncomfortable with the prayer and their concerns should be treated with respect.

How about treating tradition with respect?!

"I believe that I made the right decision," said Borden, a Catholic. "I believe I made a decision based on principle. I believe that's who I am."

Darn tootin'!

[AD from SpringBay]

Good for him. If all the Christians shrugged?

[BoBToMatoE]

...But school officials, who emphasized that they did not force Borden to resign...

Baloney. Do you think if he continued to pray at meals and what that the school district would have continued to employ him? Nope.

It was either bend over or resign. This guy is a man of principle and should be applauded.

[willyd]

If he keeps getting all the kids to pray, who will have sex with the English teachers?

[Frank_2001]

Yessir, he could have lead a prayer of apology to Mother Earth for tearing up her lawn with football cleats, that would be just fine! /s

[isrul]

"There is no such thing as separation between church and state"

How can you say such a thing. It's right there in the constitution ... listed right after the right to perform sodomy and just before a woman's right to "choose".

[Radioactive]

said some students felt uncomfortable with the prayer and their concerns should be treated with respect.

Stop sending your children to public schools.

It is neglect to send them there.

Drugs, peer pressure to have sex, pro sodomy, pro communism are all part of the public school experience in today's public schools.

Save the country, teach your children well.....at home.

[SaveTheChief]

And the right to free high speed internet?

[Tired of Taxes]

Borden, a Catholic

I wonder who complained and what type of prayer the coach was saying. Just wondering now... not interested in being flamed. :-)

Everyone is assuming the complainer was not Christian. Could Borden have been leading his team in a Catholic prayer that a Protestant Christian didn't appreciate?

I can't find anything online with more details.

P.S. (I was raised Catholic).

[Black Tooth]

In the mean time, the Texas governor flew in to lay the first bricks in a new 10 zillion square foot Muslim Center in Plano Texas.

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Officials lay bricks in symbolic start for Muslim center

On News/Activism 06/15/2005 9:02:16

Dallas Morning News ^ | June 14, 2005 |

LINDA STEWART BALL

PLANO TEXAS

The Ismaili Muslim community announced Tuesday that it is building a $6.5 million worship and community center in Plano, where it has found a warm welcome. Gov. Rick Perry flew in to lay the first ceremonial brick for the center's foundation. -snip-

[FlingWingFlyer]

"According to school officials, the prayers violated the separation between church and state in public schools."

These are the braindead jugheads that are "teaching" our children. They can't even read and UNDERSTAND the U.S. Constitution! Morons.

Coach Marcus Borden joins my list of American heroes.