Posted on 05/10/2010 10:06:22 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Big Brother says elderly visitors to federally funded meals at a Georgia senior citizen's center aren't allowed to pray to that absurd, dangerous Christian God of theirs. Obama's Big Brother government contends that since it has paid for their meals the government has the right to slam its iron boot heel down on the necks of those seasoned citizens that dare to engage in such an apostasy toward the state.
Seem absurd? Well it is but that is what happens when the feds roll into town and begin to hand out money. They feel the right to dictate what everyone is allowed or not allowed to do and in the case of Port Wentworth's Ed Young Senior Citizens Center near Savannah that is to tell these old folks that they are not allowed to pray before a meal.
There are federal "guidelines" to observe, after all and the federal government's rules say none of that ridiculous Christian stuff will go on if the feds supply even a penny of funding. Old folks that want to pray are banned from doing so and if they don't like it, why they can go hungry because the new Uncle Sam is a crusader against religion.
Well, at least one religion, anyway.
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Institutionalized thinking.
1}Your not part of the operation, your a beneficiary of it.
2}You should know your religious rights enumerated in the Constituion
3}Exercise your religious rights, and if they try to stop you, sue under Title 18 section 242 - Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law.
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Your not a 'subject' of the government, so STOP acting like one!
They should demand foot washing stations, and see what happens.
Hear! Hear!
and why is the government forcing us to practice their brand of theism? yeah, that's right, atheism is a religion: a belief concerning a supreme being, that there isn't one. It is one end of a broad spectrum of religion and needs to be treated as such. That will nip it. nip it in the bud.
So some staff from Seniors Inc. ratted on the old folks’ prayers. Wonder if there are any SEIU ties?
This will impact senior and other programs nationwide. I hope they can beat this in court, but where will the money come to represent the pray-er’s side?
How shameful.
“Can food stamp recipients still pray at home?”
Or social security recipients?
Or veterans in the VA hospital?
We don’t need no steenkin constitution!
Hear, hear!
Every truly devout man knows that freedom is found, not in religion, but in relationship with Almighty God. To utter prayers in the name of Jesus to a YHVH with whom one has no fellowship is evidence of a life of psychological compulsion that must be truly miserable.
By stark contrast, as Messiah himself said, "Whom The Son sets free is free, indeed."
You can bet your lunch on that.
They can’t stop them, really. What are they going to do restrain each one that folds their hands in prayer before a meal? That is exactly what I would do, and make it in their face too.
That part is ALWAYS ignored in every news story...
You are exactly right.
I know I will fight them tooth and nail on each and every “takeover” they try.
Is this the USSR?
I’ve been thinking all day that this country is FUBAR under the Obama Administration. It is a nightmare.
“Those ol’ people are just gonna die of something anyway...” - Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders
I have no problem with Tisei for Lt. Governor.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
OK, guess I’ve turned into a prude, but a guy who sponsors a gender neutral bathroom bill makes me pause.
Hmm. Once the food changes hands in exchange for the $.55, so does the ownership and all rights thereto. The seniors can do whatever they please over that food because after the transaction is complete, and they own it. The government subsidy no longer means that the government owns it at that point. The government does not subsidize the seniors, but rather the “Center” which is providing the food. So, if effect, the employees of the “Center” are the ones who are bound by this “rule”. This would be a piece of cake in court.
BAALONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gnip
Actually, liberals are establishing Atheism as the official religion of the US government.
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