Posted on 09/17/2009 4:24:51 AM PDT by don-o
GATE CITY — A prayer delivered prior to a high school football game last week resulted in Gate City High School receiving a letter Tuesday from the Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
In the letter, the ACLU informed the school that it believed a prayer said during a student-led memorial service prior to Gate City’s Sept. 11 home game against Sullivan South High School was unconstitutional.
It also asked for the practice to cease immediately.
“We heard from someone who attends these football games ... that the game last Friday was opened with a prayer and that they had seen this happen last season as well,” said Rebecca K. Glenberg, legal director for the Virginia ACLU. “The Supreme Court has made it quite clear that public high school football games cannot be opened with an official prayer.”
That holds true even if the opening prayer is done by students, she said.
The prayer was delivered by a student member of the school’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes during a ceremony that included a moment of silence for a Sullivan South football player who died earlier this season and a remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Freedom OF Religion does not mean Freedom FROM Religion.
THANK GOD THE ACLU is protecting our liberties
“Your papers, please...”
The ACLU - ever vigilant.
How is their civil case against the Philly voter intimidation squad going?
Exactly.
In his Art of Political Warfare, he outlines strategies.
For this particular issue, I’d suggest that Christian athletes in every state start praying massively.
Overwhelm the ACLU’s ability to go after people for being Christian.
Go to court. Let them win in court.
Then continue praying and let them prosecute. Continue the Civil Disobedience of praying.
Can you believe the Left is winning so dramatically that prayer is considered Civil Disobedience?
Given the choice of the NEW Black Panthers and voter intimidation OR High Schoolers praying before a football game...
(a CNN poll or ACLU’s choice of litigation)
A prayer delivered prior to a high school football game last week resulted in Gate City High School
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Please remember that any government powerful enough to fund an institution that allows Christian prayer ( in this case, a school), is powerful enough to allow Muslim, pagan, or atheistic practices.
The solution in this case is privatization of education. In other areas of our society, the solution is to privatize, as much as possible, the services now provided by the government.
After ACORN is investigated, then the spotlight should turn on the ACLU...
There needs to be push back. I agree. A prayer and a moment of silence for the fallen—how could that offend anyone?! We have such wishy washy leadership that maybe they’re afraid of a large Muslim population that will one day insist on their calls to prayer and such in schools, that they are preemptively denying any prayer under any circumstances now. But then again, maybe they just hate Christians and one has nothing to do with the other.
Saul Alinsky teaches that Marxists should “use their rules against them”.
Ok...So?...If the courts rule that Christian prayer is allowed, what are you going to do when Muslims, pagans, Hindus, and atheists demand the public forum for their practices?
The solution of course is to privatize, as much as possible, community services, in this case schooling.
What sort of low life scum would devote a single second of their time complaining about that? Not even to mention ACLU members and attorneys. \
The war against any show of faith in public began before most Americans even knew what a Muslim was, in the early '70s or even sooner. But one motive of the open borders types is to dilute traditional American values by bringing in large numbers of non-Christians. Both those pressures will work against Christians in the future.
Message to Gate City: The ACLU uses threats and intimidation to get their way. Stand strong in the face of these scum.
Or just let them pray if they want to.
Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion.
And if I want to be allowed to pray in public, I’d better be willing to allow others to as well.
Mutual freedom is a better recipe for a strong society than mutual oppression.
How did they know?
Where is their Scott County office?
from quick search,
ACLU gets funding from far left groups and SOROS groups.
Open Society Institute, Carnegie Corp, Ford Foundation.
George Soros is an athiest and also wants to undermine the Christian Culture in America.
All this time I thought my girls were playing basketball and I come to find they’re actually playing “unconstitutional basketball”. Maybe they should only pray when playing against teams that are obviously better than them. That way, if they lose, it doesn’t count, right?
Or just let them pray if they want to.
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“just”?
As the size and scope of government grows, the power of the voting mob grows as well.
If you really want to pull the rug out from under the Marxist atheists reduce the power of the government.
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