Despite court ruling, Rowan County (NC) commissioners say they'll continue Christian prayers

AP ^ | 2/21/2012 | The Republic

[mykdsmom]

"If they tell county commissioners they can't pray, soon they're going to be in my church telling me I can't pray in the name of Jesus," said Terry Brown, a county resident who came to the meeting.

Sometimes it seems like nobody is paying attention and then I hear about this and it gives me great hope. We aren't the only ones that get it.

[Lazamataz]

I expect before that it is over, that these NC people will be seriously hurt or killed.

[circlecity]

So, a Federal Appellate Court has issued binding case law dictating the content of public prayer - How is this not a “law regarding the establishment of religion”?

[ripley]

“Commissioners Say They’ll Continue Christian Prayer”

Those commissioners must be a bunch of gun-loving,
bible-thumping, knuckle-dragging, anti-science,
Christian morons.

/SARCASM/

(At least, that’s what the Progressives say, so it must be the truth. Long Live Big Brother!)

[LevinFan]

Atheism is becoming the defacto state religion. Just remember Daniel refused orders not to pray too.

[AppyPappy]

Prayers can be sectarian but not Christian.

[Dilbert San Diego]

These people are clinging to their guns and religion. They don’t know any better. (more sarcasm)

They just don’t know what’s good for them. What’s the matter with Kansas, or in this case, North Carolina?

See, cases like this point up why we all need good Democrats, liberals, and MSNBC talking heads to tell us how to live. (more sarcasm)

[circlecity]

"Prayers can be sectarian but not Christian."

And by what standard can it be said that one is an "establishment of relilgion" and the other isn't? This is just a court deciding that it is more comfortable with one concept of religion over another. When courts have to issue case law establishing a religion ostensibly to prevent the establishment of religion we have entered the realm of logical absurdity.

[VA_Gentleman]

Nice to see people defying the ACLU. (In the hometown of my girlfriend)

[apillar]

If people en mass would simply do what these folks are doing and ignore these court rulings on issues such as this, we would quickly remember what the founding fathers knew, the Government is powerless without the support of the people.

[ripley]

“We all need good Democrats, liberals, and MSNBC talking heads to tell us how to live.(more sarcasm)”

True, since they are all really-really smart, intelligent, supremely intellectual, omniscient, all-knowing, brilliant, superior, genetically far-advanced and also very very special god-like geniuses. ( a bit more sarcasm.)

(not to mention being absolute, tyrannical, scu*bags.)

IMHO

[onedoug]

Liberty, E Pluribus Unum, In God We Trust.
The American Trinity on every coin.

[Boogieman]

Well, it’s not really “binding” if it’s unenforceable. What are they going to do, put a “Prayer Monitor” in the council room, and taze anyone who starts to utter the word Jesus? These commissioners have the right idea, civil disobedience, which can only result in two outcomes: either the State tries to enforce this law, in a way that will reveal their true draconian nature to the public, or they will have to back down. Either way, we win.

[circlecity]

NO doubt the ACLU will try to enforce the ruling by getting a trial court injunction which enjoins any members of the council from deviating from the Federally mandated approved prayers. IF they violate the injunction the ACLU will then ask that they be held in comtempt and fined or imprisoned as punishment by the Court.

[AppyPappy]

A prayer cannot accept Jesus Christ as its Lord and Savior. Just mentioning Jesus in a prayer doesn’t make it Christian.

[Vinnie]

If people en mass would simply do what these folks are doing and ignore these court rulings on issues such as this,....

Exactly..

[Boogieman]

Yes, but none of those actions would actually serve to stop anyone from saying whatever prayers they like, they could only hope to deter people from making that choice by threatening them with harsh consequences. If I don’t care about the consequences, it’s impossible for them to enforce this law on me, they can only punish me after the fact. That’s why these kind of rights are inalienable, because you can’t really actually deprive anyone of the right itself, you can only try to increase the difficulty of them exercising it.

[circlecity]

"A prayer cannot accept Jesus Christ as its Lord and Savior. Just mentioning Jesus in a prayer doesn’t make it Christian"

Tell it to the 4th Circuit. Whatever diety a prayer "mentions" or if it doesn't mention any diety, it presumedly is petitioning somebody. So it's religious regardless of the content. How does a Court go about deciding the constitutionally permissible content of a religious prayer without establishing some sort of religion in the process? It's an absurdity.

[TheOldLady]

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[vetvetdoug]

Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Salisbury has a significant number of my ancestors (Locke) in the graveyard. My family had farms along Third Creek from as early as 1750. These people won't put up with this if they have the same genes as I.