Posted on 08/09/2013 3:28:00 AM PDT by xzins
A New Hampshire mother has been banned from praying at her kids' high school.
Lizarda Urena has two children enrolled at Concord High School in Concord, N.H.
She started praying on school grounds in 2011 after two bullets were found in a restroom at the school. Urena said she prayed aloud as students entered the school every morning.
She was recently told by school officials that the prayers were not welcome after someone filed a complaint with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
"They told me, no, no more," the mother of two said, with tears in her eyes. "I stand up, lift my hands to praise the Lord with my Bible holding and sometimes kneeling."
Urena said said she will continue to pray for the school, just no longer on school grounds.
Religious speech is even more protected in the constitution. The easiest way to handle religion is not a host of rules and times when its allowed is what the Founders decided. They decided that "free exercise" is the best way to handle religion. Be an adult. Lots of folks have different ideas on these things. Leave them alone. All its doing is voicing ideas.
In short, I think that required neutral speech is a violation of free speech. It is the government forcing an established neutral religion when it involves allowed versus disallowed religious speech or conduct. Leave them alone.
Finally, leaving that sane interpretation of the Constitution and turning to the courts' chaotic interpretation, to the extent they allow other speech by parents at that school in the morning, they are discriminating against religious speech. If that Mom is one of many moms speaking loud enough to be heard prior to school, then it's nobody's business that her mouth is speaking words of prayer instead of words of sports, academics, gossip, or weather. Leave her alone.
Will someone please inform the Nanncy Grace clone of the Freedom From Religion Foundation that the words are “freedom of religion” not “freedom from religion”
SEIU rules Concord with an iron fist...none of that G-d stuff will be tolerated here.
They are forcing their secular humanist religion upon us all.
I wonder if they stopped people from praying at Sandy Hook? Or are we only allowed to pray for the dead, not the living?
The mom is silly for praying because of bullets (cartridges?). The FFRF is criminal for interfering with her constitutional right to the free exercise of religion. If the general public is permitted on school grounds, then we are permitted to pray there, and any legitimate government would recognize that. Unfortunately, we have Obama and his followers - and the FFRF.
> They are forcing their secular humanist religion upon us all.
I wonder if their “superior” intellect realizes this?
Of course; the city of Concord has no trouble whatsoever extorting property taxes from this woman to pay for their indoctrination centers...
Even if you believe in a separation of church and state, you have to admit this woman is not the state nor is she a church. Neither are students.
Go to a park, sit on the bench and hold the bible and pray.
Are you violating a separation of church and state?
lolz
of course not
(it doesn’t exist like that anyway)
She must have forgotten her prayer rug.
That would have been welcomed by Red Hampshire’s pro-Islamic governor...
It appears that more local Christians are going to start praying on school grounds when indoctrination season ramps up at the end of this month.
Lizarda? What is the baby daddy’s name, Reptileo..
Freedom From Religion Foundation
There is NO Constitutional basis for what these people are doing.
We need to go ahead and divide ourselves from those that wish to live under communism and satan.
If she had been muslim and done as you say... prayer rug and ass in the air... they would be building her a mosque in the gym and a toilet to wash her feet in.
LLS
I guess I am in for it again.
I am sure that a woman standing praying aloud every day the kids enter school becomes disturbing to them after a while.
Not sure where she stood or how loud she was but I believe after a while it becomes more like she is haunting the school than doing any good. She becomes a nut case.
I agree with the system here ,it’s a bit like the Hari Krishna’s at the airport.
This is the equivalent of Vito saying to a store owner, “Don’t say anything against Don Corleone!” It is a pressure group using its fellow travelers and the threat of lawsuit to modify behavior of 3rd parties.
Note that the “Freedom from Religion” organization only had to write a letter to the school, likely a canned form letter saying that religion had been seen on school grounds. Probably an already atheistic school administration seized upon that crutch to forbid LEGAL 1st AMENDMENT rights. If questioned, the threat of a lawsuit would be used as justification.
The answer to these radical sectarians like this FFRF and ACLU is to tell them to bring it on. If they got universal blow-back they would exaust their money quickly and be legally insignificant.
What part of “the free exercise” clause regarding religious expression does this school district not understand? No government authority is ordering her to pray. She is free to express her prayers to God any where in this country.
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