Given the quality and lack of integrity of our federal judges, even if he/she/it banned the prayer, it’s time we started replying, “Shove it up your Obama.”
Mr. Workman needs to get a temporary restraining order, citing the distinct possibility of irreparable harm, should he be exposed to prayer.
If the order to shut them up does come down, what would the Feds do (local police do) if most of the graduating students (and even spectators) decide to say it out loud in unison?
Funny. So if a federal judge issues a restraining order then how could local police be expected to enforce it? After all, isn’t this one of those “federal issues” that we continue to be told that only the federal government can enforce?
Maybe another response to this would be for parents to organize private graduation ceremonies. The official one at the school isn’t necessarily a required event.
If the Judge does go against them then maybe the parents should break out into the Father’s Prayer at the Graduation at a pre-set time. Good luck trying to get an injuction against that.
Rinse and repeat.
Which part of "abridging the freedom of speech..." in the constitution, or "with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence" in the declaration will they hang their argument on?
When I graduated in the 70’s we always has prayer at graduation, even in little Berkeley NY. We alternated a rabbi, a protestant minister, and a Catholic priest - the major religions each year.
The year I graduated we got the rabbi. Now I am not Jewish but I had no problem with this.
I wouldn’t cancel it EVEN IF a judge ordered it.
Let's examine the two possible decisions that a government school worker can make, and hopefully conservatives will see that a religiously neutral position is impossible:
1) The government school could allow school prayer. Well...Any government powerful enough to allow Christian prayer at a government graduation is also powerful enough to allow Muslim or Wiccan prayer. It might even allow equal amount of time for the atheist to expound on the nonexistence of God. Would any thinking conservative be surprised if this happens?
2) It can forbid school prayer. This isn't religiously neutral either because it teaches the students that religion is so controversial ( or shameful) that it must be hidden away from polite society as if it were a bathroom activity. This is hardly religiously neutral either.
Fundamentally, prayer at graduation is merely one example among thousands in which government schools must make a binary decision. One group of citizens has their First Amendment Rights trashed and the other has government using tax dollars to establish their religiously non-neutral worldview.
Axiom: It is impossible to have a religiously neutral education. It is impossible to have a religiously neutral government education. ALL government schools promote and establish the religious worldviews of some citizens and trash those of others.
We pray before basketball games in southern Indiana.
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Greenwood School Board president Joe Farley says the district wants the judge to decide the merits of a lawsuit filed by the school's top-ranked senior. Greenwood High School student Eric Workman is asking a federal judge to stop a student-led prayer that the senior class voted to approve.
Sounds like another liberal in the making. Doesn't like what he was outvoted on so he's suing everyone to force them to comply with what HE wants. There's a position in the obama administration for this kid.
Ummm seems to me they shouldn’t give up the prayer even IF a Fed Judge orders it.
kinda the same thing with the lezbo scum and their prom...
DISGUSTING!
an ACLU tool..maybe valedictorian but he has a lot to learn
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I suppose the federal judge will step in and curtail the dangerous prayer. I think massive civil disobedience is the next step. Imagine high school graduating seniors getting arrested en masse all over the country for praying to God.
I see a loyalty oath to “The One” (piss be on him) in our future for all Law Enforcemrnt types.
And, it shouldn’t matter if a judge tries to stop it. Students need to defy any order, pray any despite it and dare anyone to stop it.